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RECOVERY by JOHN BERRYMAN 254 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
Recovery, given these elements, could have been a tensely structured autobiographical novel, and probably would have been, had not Berryman jumped to his death last year. He was an author of protean energies, focused on but not limited to poetry. He was himself very nearly as renowned as "Alan Severance, the nationally famous drinker," whom LIFE magazine photographs "holding forth to rapt pals in an Irish pub." Severance's polar positions are rebellion and awe. "Both seemed built in, he was ready to defend both to the death. You had to have both. He saw damned little of either...
...Underground Man (1971), has obligingly written his usual highly polished existential mystery once more. This time the title is Sleeping Beauty, and naturally the book hinges on a 25-year-old murder, witnessed by a child. Also from beyond the grave, the fine voice of Poet John Berryman is raised in precise, anguished prose (Recovery), telling about a man's struggles with alcoholism and memories of his father's suicide...
...verse, fiction and literary criticism and in 1940 won a Pulitzer Prize for his spare, Frostian lyrics (Collected Poems), the classroom remained his focal point for 39 years. Among the students influenced by his gentle Socratic discourses were Novelist Jack Kerouac and Poets Thomas Merton, Allen Ginsberg and John Berryman. Though stunned by the 1959 scandal involving his son Charles, who had been fed answers on the TV quiz show Twenty-One, Van Doren remained a near-legendary figure whose guidance was eagerly sought by Columbia's pupils and graduates...
...Coolly pragmatic, they now perceive that some of Harvard's resources can be diverted toward the liberation rather than the oppression of black people. And most of all they understand that freedom cannot be won by a single faction but only by everyone working together. They realize that, in Berryman's words. "We must have unity, then liberation...