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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 111: I miss him. When I get back to camp

... The blubber's safe in the tubs,the dogs are still, & all's well ...

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Dream Song 44: Tell it to the forest fire, tell it to the moon

... There the great flare & stench, O flying creatures, ...

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Dream Song 21: Some good people, daring & subtle voices

... I do not dig. Cool their flushing blood, them eyes is shut— ...

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Dream Song 45: He stared at ruin. Ruin stared straight back

... and when some wired his headto reach a wrong opinion, 'Epileptic' ...

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Dream Song 75: Turning it over, considering

... at once. Bare dogs drew closer for a second lookand performed their friendly operations there ...

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Dream Song 69: Love her he doesn't but the thought he puts

... I mean itLet it be known that nine words have not passed ...

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Dream Song 35: MLA

... are nervous, little friends—a chairman's not a chairman, son, forever, ...

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Dream Song 10: There were strange gatherings. A vote would come

... like this one, drove he outand gasps of love, after all, had got him ready ...

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Dream Song 78: Op. posth. no. 1

... incorporate, if you please,into the know-how of the American bard ...

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Dream Song 134: Sick at 6 & sick again at 9

... They figured he was a fixture,nuts to their bolds, keys to their bloody locks ...

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Dream Song 171: Go, ill-sped book, and whisper to her or

... for reasons unknown, and fate has bound them fast ...

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Dream Song 34: My mother has your shotgun. One man, wide

... One man, wide in the mind, and tendoned like a grizzly, pried ...

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Dream Song 53: He lay in the middle of the world, and twicht

... said:—We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win ...

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Dream Song 63: Bats have no bankers and they do not drink

... ur-moist his cousins hang in hundreds or swerve ...

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Dream Song 119: Fresh-shaven, past months & a picture in New York

... He spent his whole time in Ireland on the Book of Kells, ...