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“I'd be shucking my obligation not to . . . make a renewed case for ‘The Dream Songs.' It's a book that collects Berryman's original 77 dream songs and adds the further 308 he later wrote. This new edition includes a fond, funny and brilliant introduction by the poet and translator Michael Hofmann. Here is Berryman's masterpiece, one of those books of American poetry that, like certain mountains, has its own weather. Berryman found his form in these songs. They are serious, ambitious and elastic arrangements he could put everything into, high culture and low, Shakespeare as well as the blues, strong religious feeling as well as low impulses of every variety.†―Dwight Garner, The New York Times“The character of Henry [the hero of The Dream Songs] is a permanent addition to our literature.†―James Schevill“A major achievement . . . [Berryman] has written an elegy on his brilliant generation and, in the process, he has also written an elegy on himself.†―A. Alvarez, The Observer
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About the Author
John Berryman (1914–1972) was an American poet and scholar. He won the Pulitzer Prize for 77 Dream Songs in 1965 and the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, a continuation of The Dream Songs, in 1969. Michael Hofmann is an acclaimed poet, translator, and critic. He has published six books of poetry and has translated more than sixty books from the German, including Gottfried Benn's Impromptus: Selected Poems and Some Prose, as well as works by Ernst Jünger, Franz Kafka, and Joseph Roth. His criticism appears regularly in the London Review of Books, The New York Review of Books, and Poetry. He currently teaches poetry and translation at the University of Florida.
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Product details
Series: FSG Classics
Paperback: 464 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition (October 21, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0374534551
ISBN-13: 978-0374534554
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1.3 x 8.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
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To say I love John Berryman's THE DREAM SONGS is a vexed statement. These poems are brilliant, inventive, exciting, and put you in a careening roller-coaster with no brakes unless you drag your feet. They are intense past imagining. Berryman himself wrote that his protagonist, Henry, has "suffered an irreversible loss". As a consequence his life is hell. I don't think you should necessarily see that sentence as metaphorical. Yes, Henry is in hell but he has been there so long he's grown accustomed to the burning and the despair. You could say every time he voices one of his "dream song" he rises above both and speaks in a firm, persuasive, commanding voice. The problem I have as a novice with these poems is one of entry. I sense there are doors and windows galore to enter and exit each poem, but I have not found them accessible.What I need are notes such as we find in volumes of Eliot, Yeats, and others. Also, a series of close reading of selected poems would provide invaluable guidance. Needless to say, you don't pick up THE DREAM SONGS for casual readings. Berryman is the Dostoyevsky of poets; be prepared for that kind of intensity and transcendence.
In the preface to Berryman’s, The Dream Songs, Merwin writes that the work was – and in my opinion, still is – a, “…primal manifestation of poetry itself.†With its broken syntax, its mediations that pit themselves against gigantic thoughts like God and the universe, and the constant, yet erratic, format, tenses and word choice, The Dream Songs, especially the initial 77 Dream Songs, indeed feel like a man who is wrestling with language in a manner that is both infantile and foreign. But no reader should assume this was accidental, much less a sign of incompetence on Berryman’s part. In his 1965 review for POETRY magazine, Frederick Seidel concluded that 77 Dream Songs were a, “…brave original work, having a magnificent obstinancy.†This is possibly the most accurate description of Berryman’s craft in 77 Dream Songs I have found. They are magnificent in their scope of content: politics, race, Greek myth, biblical allusions, and pop-culture, etc. The obstinacy, for me, refers to Berryman’s devotion to being borderline incomprehensible, and at the same time, wildly enjoyable. Berryman know exactly what he was doing; it took him 13 years to write 77 Dream Songs. In a stroke of linguistic genius, he whittled away at language until we, the reader, are left with the core details, twisted and full of knots, like a walking stick with which we can traverse the chaos of The Dream Songs.
This assemblage of six line stanzas, in precarious sonnet form, that is, Henry's de facto form, finds the text crammed and twisted, the poetic content bewilderingly mashed into many of these lines of text. What starkly emerges is the power of an intense amount of self-generated pain.The despair and self-loathing contrasts sharply with the wicked wit and occasional flash of meanness; the confessionally inclined Henry emerges as a not-too-honest, lustful and quite sad storyteller. The DREAM SONGS are anything but flawless; and yet, the flaws are so unique that they augment the collage of experience that Berryman at times compellingly depicts. Some of the SONGS are flat out brilliant, while others are just oozing with sticky pathos and self-indulgent whining. These are the loosely linked themes that bear the load of Henry's loves, losses, work-in-progress, current events, and even some domestic details.Berryman's denial notwithstanding, his Henry and Bones personas, standing unsteadily through the too-many alcoholic dawns ... well, he somehow manages to pull himself together enough to shakily get to class and lecture in order to earn some more whiskey money. And to his credit, his erudition lurks on through these self-styled sonnet songs - experimental collages, maudlin at times, fueled by the hard liquored nights.Jung would say Berryman is "too high up in his mind", a personality riddled with self-importance. Under the currents of self-loathing and pity lurks an obvious hankering for fame - and the DREAM SONGS provide the catharsis and exit for his regrets, which seem many.No, Henry is not one prone to humility - and his creator can be a real horse's ass, with many racist undercurrents weaving through the sniveling and morbid death obsessions. Yet, throughout all the textual dross, lies the glint of poetic nuggets waiting to be claimed by the metaphorically intrepid.
Berryman’s poetry is complex and deep. There were many points where I felt lost and simply decided to swim along with the words. I didn’t regret any of the time I spent with this book. I notice some reviewers observed that this is a book that you can return to year after year and I anticipate doing so myself. There is beauty here, sometimes of a very dark kind, and some passages that I would read over and over again because they seemed to so true. Highly recommended for fans of modern poetry.
Henry's pelt was put on sundry wallswhere it did much resemble Henry andthem persons was delighted.Especially his long & glowing tailby all them was admired, and visitors.They whistled: This is it!--From Dream Song 16. That final "it" is italicized.You will admire his long & glowing tail. You will whistle, as I have so often whistled, This is it. You will read these poems again and again. Indispensable.
This was the book that inspired me to attend grad school (so should I send Berryman's estate the bill?). The book follows Henry, a persona developed by John Berryman...many of the poems are autobiographical and confessional in nature.The poems are wild and yet Berryman strongly adheres to a sonnet form.A great book in the canon and not often celebrated enough.
I studied this book at the graduate level. Berryman is frequently difficult, but truly important to study for a rounded perspective of 20th century poetry. While not easily accessible, his work takes off in magical ways that always amaze. A must read for the serious poet, but consider reading other writings about these poems.
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