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...DREAM, HIS REST, by John Berryman. Using a fictional white middle-aged American named Henry as his mouthpiece, Berryman comments on a whole range of human experience, particularly life during the past eleven years, and completes the poem cycle begun in 77 Dream Songs...
...DREAM, HIS REST, by John Berryman. Concluding the cycle of poems begun in 77 Dream Songs about a white American in early middle age, Berryman comments on life in the last eleven years and the whole range of human experience...
...Henry fights his intensely personal wars, struggles with love, drinks away his loneliness and imagines killing his father, who was really a suicide, Berryman fashions an epic view of life, often more dream than real. The tone is usually mournfully ironic, as in Song 142, describing one of Henry's amorous situations...
Karl Shapiro's second volume of verse, V-Letter and Other Poems, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1945, and established him as a poet who could deal ably with the emotions of war. His Selected Poems won him a half share, with Berryman, of the 1969 Bollingen Prize. But his latest book of verse demonstrates that the toughness is gone and the vision is blurred when it comes to love. In this cycle of 29 love poems, adolescent maundering most often conquers whatever maturity of poetic line or concept should be expected...
...sizable share of the primary poetic audience-the young. It may be that youth finds it easier to grapple with the social commentary found in Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson" or in the political-protest songs of Bob Dylan than with the more complicated work of poets like Berryman. Or it may be that the poem as ballad is simply coming back into its own. In any case, the music world is experimenting with a revolutionary surrealism, and contemporary songwriters and poets are apparently enriching one another's work. Many folk-rock lyrics stand up as poems...