The poet introduces John Berryman and his sonnets: He made, a thousand years ago, a-many songs For an excellent lady, wif whom he was in wuv. Even after all those years (it's probably only twenty ...

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 ...

Their intertwining personal lives were laid bare in their work, and Robert Lowell, John Berryman and Elizabeth Bishop returned repeatedly to the elegy to commemorate old friends and settle old ...