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...cross with God who has wrecked this generation/First he seized Ted, then Richard, Randall, and now Delmore," wrote poet John Berryman of the deaths of his peers...
...years later, Berryman himself jumped into the frozen waters of the Mississippi River and died...
Some of the leading lights of that older group--Schwartz, Berryman, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop--brought their poetry to Cambridge, and they in turn inspired a new school of Harvard-trained poets...
...anthology ended with a collection of modern poetry from such writers as John Berryman and Robert Lowell, as well as a poem by Frank O'Hara, whose work was first performed by the original Poets' Theatre in the 1950s...
...Berryman was next. After heated sonnets on the subject of suicide, the 57- year-old leaped off a bridge: "In a modesty of death I join my father" said one of his late poems. Lowell once noted that he and his friends "go at it with such single-minded intensity that we are always on the point of drowning." Now the survivor lost the will to compete. When he suffered his last heart attack at 60, his third wife called it a "suicide wish." In "Middle Age," he had written, "I forgive/ those I/ have injured...