"The Dream Songs" is widely seen as Berryman's masterpiece, an impressively vast and varied collection of poems that is in itself a single, sprawling, ever-shifting poem. The songs in this great work are thus offered in many different tones, moods, and guises, although their form, Berryman's idiosyncratic reworking of the sonnet, remains more or less constant. Combining all of Berryman's earlier "77 Dream Songs" (which won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize) and "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest" (which won the 1969 National Book Award), ...
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"The Dream Songs" is widely seen as Berryman's masterpiece, an impressively vast and varied collection of poems that is in itself a single, sprawling, ever-shifting poem. The songs in this great work are thus offered in many different tones, moods, and guises, although their form, Berryman's idiosyncratic reworking of the sonnet, remains more or less constant. Combining all of Berryman's earlier "77 Dream Songs" (which won the 1965 Pulitzer Prize) and "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest" (which won the 1969 National Book Award), this one-volume edition contains no fewer than 385 entries in what the critic Denis Donoghue has called Berryman's "dream diary." The book also has an index of first lines, an index of titles, and a note by the author.
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Very Good. 1st edition 1st printing-minor staining to page edge-stain on bottom edge of cover-minor wear to edge of dust jacket (now in mylar cover) otherwise cover fine binding strong contents clean-enjoy.
