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Kamran Javadizadeh

Kamran Javadizadeh is an Associate Professor of English at Villanova. He is the author of the forthcoming Institutionalized Lyric: American Poetry at Midcentury.  (April 2021)

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‘The Roots of Our Madness’

John Berryman was central to American poetry’s personal turn, yet his Dream Songs made the racialization of that turn—and the whiteness of the lyric tradition—explicit.

The Selected Letters of John Berryman

edited by Philip Coleman and Calista McRae, with a foreword by Martha B. Mayou

April 8, 2021 issue

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