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Hardcover The Selected Letters of John Berryman Book

ISBN: 0674976258

ISBN13: 9780674976252

The Selected Letters of John Berryman

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A wide-ranging, first-of-its-kind selection of Berryman's correspondence with friends, loved ones, writers, and editors, showcasing the turbulent, fascinating life and mind of one of America's major poets.

The Selected Letters of John Berryman assembles for the first time the poet's voluminous correspondence. Beginning with a letter to his parents in 1925 and concluding with a letter sent a few weeks before his death in 1972, Berryman tells his story in his own words.

Included are more than 600 letters to almost 200 people--editors, family members, students, colleagues, and friends. The exchanges reveal the scope of Berryman's ambitions, as well as the challenges of practicing his art within the confines of the publishing industry and contemporary critical expectations. Correspondence with Ezra Pound, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz, Adrienne Rich, Saul Bellow, and other writers demonstrates Berryman's sustained involvement in the development of literary culture in the postwar United States. We also see Berryman responding in detail to the work of writers such as Carolyn Kizer and William Meredith and encouraging the next generation--Edward Hoagland, Valerie Trueblood, and others. The letters show Berryman to be an energetic and generous interlocutor, but they also make plain his struggles with personal and familial trauma, at every stage of his career.

An introduction by editors Philip Coleman and Calista McRae explains the careful selection of letters and contextualizes the materials within Berryman's career. Reinforcing the critical and creative interconnectedness of Berryman's work and personal life, The Selected Letters confirms his place as one of the most original voices of his generation and opens new horizons for appreciating and interpreting his poems.

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