The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems

by John Berryman

Book Overview

A lively sampling from the work of one of the most celebrated and daring poets of the twentieth century

John Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately: of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world and coming to terms with this one. The Heart Is Strange, a new...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374221081
• ISBN13: 9780374221089
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"