77 Dream Songs Contributor(s): Berryman, John (Author), Swift, Daniel (Editor), Cole, Henri (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0374534527 ISBN-13: 9780374534523 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2014 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Canadian |
Dewey: 811.54 |
Series: FSG Classics |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.1" (0.25 lbs) 112 pages |
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Publisher Description: A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astounds |
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.Cole, Henri: - Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, in 1956. He has published eight previous collections of poetry and received many awards for his work, including the Jackson Poetry Prize, the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Rome Prize, the Berlin Prize, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His most recent collection is Touch. He lives in Boston, where he is a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University. |