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Book Review of John Berryman: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)

John Berryman: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)
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From the jacket: "Staggering, swaggering, intoxicating": John Berryman's poetry--above all in his monumental Dream Songs--broke formal and emotional boundaries in its roiling mix of idioms and personas, of deep erudition and lacerating self-revelation."