John Berryman: 77 Dream Songs
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- Materiaali: Nidottu
- Kustantaja: Farrar Straus Giroux
- Kieli: englanti
- ISBN: 9780374534523
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A wild, masterful Pulitzer Prize-winning cycle of poems that half a century later still shocks and astoundsJohn 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. '