When writing the introduction to a handsome new edition of John Berryman’s long poem “77 Dream Songs,” I was happy for the chance to consider why it was that I was first drawn, thirty-five years ago, ...

“Certainly the bearded one is not for everyone – as Marianne Moore said of poetry, I too, dislike it – but there is something in him that provides a model, or at least an anti-model, something to ...

In this wide-ranging collection of John Berryman’s letters from 1925 to 1971, editors Coleman and McRae provide a revealing window into the poet’s mind and work through his own words. Early boarding ...

I was never altogether the same man after that. Berryman took Blackmur’s words as his marching orders and his credo. Until his suicide in 1972, he wrote contorted, hysterical, dense, madcap-funny, ...

The poet John Berryman (left) and legendary editor Robert Giroux (right) shared not only a literary corpus but a lifelong friendship (Photos courtesy of University of Notre Dame Press). During the ...

Whether we like it or not, the final season of HBO's satirical black comedy Succession is coming to a close. While there's no way of knowing who will come out on top, what we do know is there's a ...

The poet John Berryman would be turning 100 on Oct. 25, were he alive, and his publisher is celebrating the centenary with three re-issued collections and one new one, “The Heart is Strange” (Oct. 21) ...

Born in Oklahoma in 1914, John Berryman was one of the most original American poets of his generation. In the decade before he took his own life, in 1972, he won several of the most prestigious prizes ...

endower of Earth so gorgeous & different from the boring Moon, thank you for such as it is my gift. I have made up a morning prayer to you containing with precision everything that most matters.

“I have a crazy new way of writing poems,” John Berryman wrote to illustrator Ben Shahn in January 1956. He had indeed hit on something crazy and new: an 18-line structure he ended up calling his ...