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John Berryman
(1914 - 1972 / Oklahoma / United States)
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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) ...
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. 77 Dream Songs, no. 14 (1964).
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''Bats have no bankers and they do not drink
and cannot be arrested and pay no tax
and, in general, bats have it made.''
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. 77 Dream Songs, no. 63 (1964).
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''"A poet is a man speaking to men":
But I am then a poet, am I not?—''
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. A Professor's Song (l. 10-11). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Oxfor...
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''Filling her compact & delicious body
with chicken paprika, she glanced at me
twice.''
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. Filling Her Compact (l. 1-3). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxfor...
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''only the fact of her husband & four other people
kept me from springing on her''
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. Filling Her Compact (l. 5-7). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxfor...
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''Where did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law
against Henry.''
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. Filling Her Compact (l. 18-19). . .
Oxford Book of American Light Verse, The. William Harmon, ed. (1979) Oxf...
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Nothing very bad happen to me lately.
How you explain that?—I explain that, Mr Bones,
terms o' your bafflin odd sobriety.
Sober as man can get, no girls, no telephones,
what c...
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. Henry's Confession (l. 1-5). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym and oth...
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''I'd take off all my clothes
& cross the damp cold lawn & down the bluff
into the terrible water & walk forever
under it out toward the island.''
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. Henry's Understanding (l. 15-18). . .
New Oxford Book of American Verse, The. Richard Ellmann, ed. (1976) Ox...
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''The world is gradually becoming a place
Where I do not care to be any more.''
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, no. 149 (1968).
Berryman ended his life by jumping off a bridge over the Missi...
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''What he has now to say is a long
wonder the world can bear & be.''
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John Berryman (1914-1972), U.S. poet. Huffy Henry Hid the Day (l. 13-14). . .
Norton Anthology of American Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Nina Baym ...
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