The complete "Dream Songs"--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as
thrilling to read now as they ever were
John Berryman's "Dream Songs" are perhaps the funniest, saddest,
most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the
twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly
sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry.
Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital;
he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world.
He is lustful; he is depressed.
And while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching
himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the
English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but
resound with an intuitive truth: "if he had a hundred years," Henry
despairs in "Dream Song 29," "& more, & weeping, sleepless,
in all them time / Henry could not make good."
This volume collects both "77 Dream Songs," which won Berryman the
Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, "His Toy, His
Dream, His Rest," which was awarded the National Book Award and the
Bollingen Prize in 1969. "The Dream Songs" are witty and wild, an
account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word
play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly
sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet--and
may never be--equaled.
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