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) ...

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 ...

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.

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 imagine you have heard the terrible news” writes poet John Berryman in his masterwork “The Dream Songs,” a dark refrain that echoes throughout his writing. Now, in addition to his poetic oeuvre, ...

You can hardly call a writer Esoteric whose work is taught in two courses in the University. But the poet John McArdin Berryman, who visited Cambridge last month to great for the Advocate, enjoys a ...

Eileen Simpson, a writer who probed the depths of her difficult early life and, in a well-known memoir, the tumultuous years with her husband, John Berryman, and their circle of poet friends, died ...

For a poet who is attempting what many consider to be the most radical of recent experiments with language--the Dream Songs--John Berryman's poetic is ruthlessly functional. "The ordinary modern ...