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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DREAM, HIS REST, by John Berryman; Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $6.50. All sections quoted are copyright by John Berryman. Dream Song 172 appears through the courtesy of Farrar, Straus & Giroux...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Secrets Hidden In Rhyme | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

...RICH CRITICAL Prose"--like Berryman, I, too, dislike it. But this once I am writing because John Berryman, that mad and beloved poet, that heroic neurotic and bearded inventor of terminal diseases, has written an hilarious, pathetic, beautiful book: His Toy, His Dream, His Rest...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Secrets Hidden In Rhyme | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

...book contains 308 poems, divided into four sections, and these complete a work called "The Dream Songs." The first three sections are in 77 Dream Songs, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965. The 385 poems are all in one form: three stanzas of six lines each, often rhyming, and occasionally with extra lines. The form is Berryman's own, and he uses it well, making each poem a sort of three-part sonnet...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Secrets Hidden In Rhyme | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

...described as anarchic, lustful, huffy, exasperated, wicked, powerful, shy, obsessed, mad, weak, and many other things. Mr. Berryman says that Henry is "not the poet, not me," but we can safely assume that Henry is a projection of Berryman. Indeed one of the major forces behind the Dream Songs is the tension between Henry (Berryman) as subject, poet, public man, and lonely soul. Henry appears as "I," "he," and "you," sometimes he comes in black-face, and once as a sheep...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Secrets Hidden In Rhyme | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

...DREAM SONG NUMBER...

Author: By John Plotz, | Title: Secrets Hidden In Rhyme | 10/23/1968 | See Source »

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