Berryman's Sonnets Contributor(s): Berryman, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374534543 ISBN-13: 9780374534547 Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Love & Erotica |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 67015007 |
Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.51" W x 8.53" (0.42 lbs) 144 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Berryman, John: - 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.Swift, Daniel: - Daniel Swift teaches at the New College of the Humanities in London. His first book, Bomber County, was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Guardian First Book award, and his essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the New Statesman, and Harper's. |