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John Berryman
(1914 - 1972)

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John Berryman was born John Smith in MacAlester, Oklahoma, in 1914. He received an undergraduate degree from Columbia College in 1936 and attended Cambridge University on a fellowship. He taught at Wayne State University in Detroit and went on to occupy posts at Harvard and Princeton. From 1955 unti .. .. more >>

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1		Dream Song 1: Huffy Henry hid the day
2		Dream Song 10: There were strange gatherings. A vote would come
3		Dream Song 100: How this woman came by the courage
4		Dream Song 101: A shallow lake, with many waterbirds
5		Dream Song 102: The sunburnt terraces which swans make home
6		Dream Song 103: I consider a song will be as humming-bird
7		Dream Song 104: Welcome, grinned Henry, welcome, fifty-one!
8		Dream Song 105: As a kid I believed in democracy: I
9		Dream Song 106: 28 July
10		Dream Song 107: Three 'coons come at his garbage. He be cross
13		Dream Song 11: His mother goes. The mother comes & goes.
14		Dream Song 110: It was the blue & plain ones. I forget all that
15		Dream Song 111: I miss him. When I get back to camp
16		Dream Song 112: My framework is broken, I am coming to an end
17		Dream Song 113: or Amy Vladeck or Riva Freifeld
18		Dream Song 114: Henry in trouble whirped out lonely whines
19		Dream Song 115: Her properties, like her of course & frisky & new
20		Dream Song 116: Through the forest, followed, Henry made his silky way

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"Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns,
we ourselves flash and yearn,
and moreover my mother told me as a boy
(repeatingly) "Ever to confess you're bored
means you have no
Inner Resources." I conclude now I have no
inner resources, because I am heavy bored."
John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. 77 Dream Songs, no. 14 (1964).

"Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made."
John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. 77 Dream Songs, no. 63 (1964).

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John Berryman
John Berryman (1914-1972). | Berryman's Life and Career | On The Dream Songs | On "Dream Song 1" | On "Dream Song 4" | On "Dream Song 5" | On "Dream Song ...
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Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - John Berryman
Academy of American Poets profile of the author including biography, photograph, and selected poems.
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When a 57-year-old John Berryman waved to the onlookers and threw himself from the Washington Avenue Bridge on a cold January morning in 1972, ...
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