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Born in October 25, 1914 / Died in January 7, 1972 / United States / English

Poems by John Berryman

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Dream Song 46: I am, outside. Incredible

... ss man at an intersection said, under his breath, "Christ!"That word, so spoken, affected the vision ...

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Dream Song 5: Henry sats in de bar & was odd

... ' 'Orright.'Henry lay in de netting, wild, ...

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Dream Song 12: Sabbath

... Belle thro' the graves in a blast of sun ...

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Dream Song 77: Seedy Henry rose up shy

... & haircuts, & a squeamish comfy ruin-prone proud national ...

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Dream Song 176: All that hair flashing over

... off the skin will come with itand I'll run blood, horrible on the floor ...

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Dream Song 26: The glories of the world struck me

... ¢Â€Â”Fell Henry back into the original crime: art, rimebesides a sense of others, my God, my God, ...

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Dream Song 74: Henry hates the world. What the world to Henry

... might have made a difference, 'these lower beauties', ...

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Dream Song 105: As a kid I believed in democracy: I

... 'saw no alternative'—teaching at The Big Place I ah ...

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Dream Song 122: He published his girl's bottom in staid pages

... towards the ground, andwhile fable wound itself upon him thick ...

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Dream Song 6: A Capital at Wells

... back to the flying boy in mountain air,Vermont's child to go out, and while Keats sweat' ...

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Dream Song 54: 'NO VISITORS' I thumb the roller to

... sat down on the grass and took leave of each other ...

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Dream Song 7: 'The Prisoner of Shark Island' with Paul Muni

... For the rats have moved in, mostly, and this is for real ...

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Dream Song 52: Silent Song

... Will Henry again ever be on the lookout for women & milk, ...

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Dream Song 79: Op. posth. no. 2

... the occlusion of a star:anything afterward, of a high lament, ...

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Dream Song 98: I met a junior--not so junior--and

... I think of the junior: once my advanced élève, ...