Volume 2, Number 8 · May 28, 1964
The Poetry of John Berryman
By Robert Lowell
77 Dream Songs
by John Berryman
Farrar, Straus, 84 pp., $3.95
Groups of John Berryman's Dream Songs have been coming out in magazines for the last five years. They have been talked about, worried over, denounced, adored. They are puzzling, not quite intelligible—and beyond a doubt fun to read or hear. When they don't make you cry—these poems will make you laugh. And that is news.
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