{"product_id":"the-dream-songs-paperback","title":"The Dream Songs - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJohn Berryman\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDaniel Swift\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe complete \u003ci\u003eDream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e--hypnotic, seductive, masterful--as thrilling to read now as they ever were\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Berryman's \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital; he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd while Henry is breaking down and cracking up and patching himself together again, Berryman is doing the same thing to the English language, crafting electric verses that defy grammar but resound with an intuitive truth: \"if he had a hundred years,\" Henry despairs in \"Dream Song 29,\" \"\u0026amp; more, \u0026amp; weeping, sleepless, in all them time \/ Henry could not make good.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume collects both \u003ci\u003e77 Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, which won Berryman the Pulitzer Prize in 1965, and their continuation, \u003ci\u003eHis Toy, His Dream, His Rest\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize in 1969. \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e are witty and wild, an account of madness shot through with searing insight, winking word play, and moments of pure, soaring elation. This is a brilliantly sustained and profoundly moving performance that has not yet-and may never be-equaled.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Berryman\u003c\/b\u003e (1914-1972) was an American poet and scholar. He won the Pulitzer Prize for \u003ci\u003e77 Dream Songs \u003c\/i\u003ein 1965 and the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for \u003ci\u003eHis Toy, His Dream, His Rest\u003c\/i\u003e, a continuation of \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, in 1969. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMichael Hofmann\u003c\/b\u003e is an acclaimed poet, translator, and critic. He has published several books of poetry and has translated more than sixty books from the German, including Gottfried Benn's \u003ci\u003eImpromptus: Selected Poems and Some Prose\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as works by Ernst Jünger, Franz Kafka, and Joseph Roth. His criticism appears regularly in the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e. He currently teaches poetry and translation at the University of Florida.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 464\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.2 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 21, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755628036384,"sku":"9780374534554","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/5133b4e0ceff7cb490b8efd46f60ff9d.webp?v=1780064064","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-dream-songs-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}