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A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind selection of Berryman’s
correspondence with friends, loved ones, writers, and editors,
showcasing the turbulent, fascinating life and mind of one of
America’s major poets. The Selected Letters of John Berryman
assembles for the first time the poet’s voluminous
correspondence. Beginning with a letter to his parents in 1925 and
concluding with a letter sent a few weeks before his death in 1972,
Berryman tells his story in his own words. Included are more than
600 letters to almost 200 people—editors, family members,
students, colleagues, and friends. The exchanges reveal the scope
of Berryman’s ambitions, as well as the challenges of practicing
his art within the confines of the publishing industry and
contemporary critical expectations. Correspondence with Ezra Pound,
Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Adrienne Rich, Saul Bellow, and
other writers demonstrates Berryman’s sustained involvement in
the development of literary culture in the postwar United States.
We also see Berryman responding in detail to the work of writers
such as Carolyn Kizer and William Meredith and encouraging the next
generation—Edward Hoagland, Valerie Trueblood, and others. The
letters show Berryman to be an energetic and generous interlocutor,
but they also make plain his struggles with personal and familial
trauma, at every stage of his career. An introduction by editors
Philip Coleman and Calista McRae explains the careful selection of
letters and contextualizes the materials within Berryman’s
career. Reinforcing the critical and creative interconnectedness of
Berryman’s work and personal life, The Selected Letters confirms
his place as one of the most original voices of his generation and
opens new horizons for appreciating and interpreting his poems.
Faber are pleased to announce the relaunch of the poetry list -
starting in Spring 2001 and continuing, with publication dates each
month, for the rest of the year. This will involve a new jacket
design recalling the typographic virtues of the classic Faber
poetry covers, connecting the backlist and the new titles within a
single embracing cover solution. A major reissue program is
scheduled, to include classic individual collections from each
decade, some of which have long been unavailable: Wallace Stevens's
Harmonium and Ezra Pound's Personae from the 1920s; W.H. Auden's
Poems (1930); Robert Lowell's Life Studies from the 1950s; John
Berryman's 77 Dream Songs and Philip Larkin's The Whitsun Weddings
from the 1960s; Ted Hughes's Gaudete and Seamus Heaney's Field Work
from the 1970s; Michael Hofmann's Acrimony and Douglas Dunn's
Elegies from the 1980s. Timed to celebrate publication of Seamus
Heaney's new collection, Electric Light, the relaunch is intended
to re-emphasize the predominance of Faber Poetry, and to celebrate
a series which has played a shaping role in the history of modern
poetry since its inception in the 1920s.
This volume brings together all of Berryman’s poetry, except for his epic The Dream Songs, ranging from his earliest unpublished poem (1934) to those written in the last months of his life (1972). A definitive edition of one of America’s most distinguished poets.
In this series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet
of the past. By their choice of poems and by the personal and
critical reactions they express in their prefaces, the editors
offer insights into their own work as well as providing an
accessible and passionate introduction to some of the greatest
poets in our literature. John Berryman (1914-72) was a poet from an
immensely gifted generation of American poets that included Robert
Lowell, Randall Jarrell and Elizabeth Bishop. His long sequence The
Dream Songs has become an enduring landmark in American poetry and
a tribute to Berryman's own endurance in the face of alcoholism,
depression and mental instability. In 1972 he leaped to his death
from a bridge above the Mississippi River.
This newly revised and greatly expanded edition of Ezra Pound's
Selected Poems is intended to articulate Pound for the twenty-first
century. Gone are many of the "stale creampuffs" (as Pound called
them) of the 1949 edition. Instead, new emphasis has been laid on
the interpenetration of original composition and translation within
Pound's career. New features of this edition include the complete
"Homage to Sextus Propertius" in its original lineation, early
translations from Cavalcanti, Heine, and the troubadours, as well
as late translations of Sophocles, and the Confucian Odes. As a
lifelong expatriate, Pound parceled out his work to a variety of
journals in England, America, France, and Italy. This new edition
takes account of this complex publishing history by giving the
poems in the chronological order of their original magazine
publication. We can observe Pound as he first emerges onto the
literary scene in the pages of Ford Madox Ford's English Review and
Harriet Monroe's Chicago-based Poetry, and then as an agent
provocateur for the avant-garde Little Review, Blast, and The Dial.
Unlike all previous selections, this volume provides annotation to
all the early poems as well as a running commentary on the later
Cantos - indispensable to any reader wanting to follow Pound on his
epic odyssey through ancient China, medieval Provence, the Italian
Renaissance, the early American Republic, and the darkness of the
twentieth century. The editor, Richard Sieburth, provides a
chronology of Pound's life, a new preface, and an informative
afterword, "Selecting Pound." Also included in the appendix are T.
S. Eliot's and John Berryman's original introductions to Pound's
Selected Poems.
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The Monk (Paperback)
Matthew G Lewis; Introduction by John Berryman
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The Monk shocked and titillated readers with its graphic portrayal
of lust, sin, and violence when it was first published in 1796. A
true classic of the Gothic novel, it has left an indelible mark on
English literature and has influenced such eminent writers as
Byron, Scott, Poe, Flaubert, Hawthorne, Emily Brontë, and many
others over the past two centuries. Ambrosio is the abbot of the
Capuchin monastery in Madrid. He is beloved by his flock, and his
renowned piety has earned him the nickname The Man of Holiness. Yet
beneath the veneer of this religious man lies a heart of hypocrisy;
arrogant, licentious, and vengeful, he follows his sexual desires
down the torturous path to ruin. Along the way, he encounters a
naïve virgin who falls prey to his scheming, a baleful beauty
fluent in witchcraft, the ghostly Bleeding Nun, an evil prioress,
the Wandering Jew, and others.
This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the
classic, timeless works that have stood the test of time and offer
them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so
that everyone can enjoy them.
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The Church (Paperback)
John Berryman
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77 Dream Songs (Paperback)
John Berryman; Edited by Daniel Swift; Introduction by Henri Cole
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A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that
half a century later still shocks and astounds
John Berryman was hardly unknown when he published "77 Dream
Songs," but the volume was, nevertheless, a shock and a revelation.
A "spooky" collection in the words of Robert Lowell--"a maddening
work of genius."
As Henri Cole notes in his elegant, perceptive introduction,
Berryman had discovered "a looser style that mixed high and low
dictions with a strange syntax." Berryman had also discovered his
most enduring alter ego, a paranoid, passionate, depressed, drunk,
irrepressible antihero named Henry or, sometimes, Mr. Bones: "We
touch at certain points," Berryman claimed, of Henry, "But I am an
actual human being."
Henry may not be real, but he comes alive on the page. And while
the most famous of the Dream Songs begins, "Life, friends, is
boring," these poems never are. Henry lusts: seeing a woman
"Filling her compact & delicious body / with chicken paprika"
he can barely restrain himself: "only the fact of her husband &
four other people / kept me from springing on her." Henry despairs:
"All the world like a woolen lover / once did seem on Henry's side.
/ Then came a departure." Henry, afraid of his own violent urges,
consoles himself: "Nobody is ever missing."
"77 Dream Songs" won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, but Berryman's
formal and emotional innovations--he cracks the language open,
creates a new idiom in which to express eternal feelings--remain as
alive and immediate today as ever.
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Berryman's Sonnets (Paperback)
John Berryman; Edited by Daniel Swift; Introduction by April Bernard
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A brilliant and fiercely pitched sonnet cycle about love: at once
passionate, forbidden, and doomed
John Berryman was an unconventional poet, but he must have
surprised even himself when, in his thirties, he found he was
suddenly compelled to write sonnets. It was an unusual choice--even
an unpopular one--for a poet in a midcentury American literary
scene that was less interested in forms. But it was the right
choice, for Berryman found himself in a situation that called for
the sonnet: after several years of a happy marriage, he had fallen
helplessly, hopelessly in love with the young wife of a
colleague.
"Passion sought; passion requited; passion delayed; and, finally,
passion utterly thwarted" this is how the poet April Bernard, in
her vivid, intimate introduction, characterizes the sonnet cycle,
and it is the cycle that Berryman found himself caught up in. Of
course the affair was doomed to end, and end badly. But in the
meantime, on the page Berryman performs a spectacular dance of
tender, obsessive, impossible love in his "characteristic tonal
mixture of bravado and lacerating shame-facedness." Here is the
poet as lover, genius, and also, in Bernard's words, as
nutcase.
In "Berryman's Sonnets," the poet draws on the models of Petrarch
and Sidney to reanimate and reimagine the love-sonnet sequence.
Complex, passionate, filled with verbal fireworks and the emotional
strains of joy, terror, guilt, and longing, these poems are ripe
for rediscovery by contemporary readers.
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