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Collected Poems, 1937-71

1 review
John Berryman

Faber and Faber, 1991

Definitive Berryman
All the poems but the /Dream Songs/, which are collected separately (also from Amazon). The included /Sonnets/ are from the original ms carbons, unemended, but with the five extra of the 1964 first edition. Easy typeface and size, stanzas properly divided. Adequate bio for all but Berryman scholars. You like Berryman in whole or part, or you don't, and this is where you'll find out. If ...

Basic Techniques for Successful Fly Tying: A Lesson by Lesson Approach

2 reviews
Brad Befus, John Berryman

Pruett Publishing Company, 2001

Best Basic Fly Tying Manual Yet
As the title implies, this book covers a step by step basic approach to fly tying. After having read and tried, more than a dozen entry level books on this subject, all I can say is buy this book! The authors take you step by step through each process, accumulating in a finished fly. They are meticulous in each step, repeating the last steps, while moving on to the next. They also heed a ...

We Dream of Honour: John Berryman's Letters to His Mother

1 review
Richard Kelly, John Berryman

W W Norton & Co Inc, 1988

Oedipus rising
The normal inclination after reading this book is to say, "I can see why he jumped off the Washington Avenue bridge." and that's pretty much the picture it draws for the reader. The constricting relationship between Berryman and his mother from his days at Cambridge to the end of his life was often contentious and demanding, though loving in nature. The seemingly tight-knit love slowly ...

Love & Fame

1 review
John Berryman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1970

Wit & Pain
"Love & Fame" is an amazing book. It may be a simpler, less ambitious work than "77 Dream Songs", but it is still an extraordinary volume of poems. Hilarious and sad, it is a disjointed autobiography conveyed in verse, and Berryman has some great stories to tell. However, though this work is more narrative than the Dream Songs, it never gets boring. Berryman is always doing something surprising ...

Eight American Poets: An Anthology

6 reviews
Theodore Roethke, Elizabeth Bishop, ..., 2008

An excellent introduction to 8 major poets
For someone just coming into an appreciation of poetry-somewhat suspiciously like myself-Conarroe's anthology approach is perfect: concentrate on just a few major poets and provide an introduction to each and a generous sampling of their poetry. I have owned this book for several years now and it introduced me to what are now some of my favorite poets (Elizabeth Bishop, Theodore Roethke, Anne ...

Selected Poems, 1938-68

1 review
John Berryman

Faber and Faber, 2002

WHAT A VOICE!
John Berryman himself compiled this selection from his published poetry, to serve as both an introduction to his work and a summary of his poetic career. The book consists of five sections, with poems from The Dispossessed (1948), His Thought Made Pockets (1958), Berryman's Sonnets (952, 1967), Homage To Mistress Bradstreet (1953) and The Dream Songs (1964, 1968). My favorite poems come mostly ...

The Dream Songs

17 reviews
John Berryman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969

To like without much understanding
I am not very knowledgable about Berryman and his work. I certainly have not read the poems with the time and intensity of a number of the reviewers on this site. I have an impression of Berryman and his work. It is of something vaguely likeable occaisionally able to provide a line which hits home. It is of a very variable voice in which the disorder and the breakdown somehow make the text too ...

Stephen Crane (Meridian books)

2 reviews
John Berryman

World Pub. Co, 1962

Milestone in Crane Studies
Now going on 60 years old, this was poet Berryman's doctoral thesis. It remains a milestone study on Crane, and in American literature studies generally for its acute insights. It stands up quite well to most Crane studies since; though more "facts" have emerged, they do not greatly alter the essential portrait. A good complement to Berryman's book is Robert Stallman's, which sets Crane in the ...

Selected Poems, 1938-1968

1 review
John Berryman

Faber and Faber Ltd, 1972

Strange, powerful and moving
John Berryman himself compiled this selection from his published poetry, to serve as both an introduction to his work and a summary of his poetic career. The book consists of five sections, with poems from The Dispossessed (1948), His Thought Made Pockets (1958), Berryman's Sonnets (952, 1967), Homage To Mistress Bradstreet (1953) and The Dream Songs (1964, 1968). My favorite poems come mostly ...

Beyond Trout: A Flyfishing Guide

2 reviews
Barry Reynolds, John Berryman

Johnson Books, 1995

The title says it all.
This book is a very good discertation on fly fishing for species other than trout. It covers warm water species, bass bluegill/sunfish, perch and crappie as well as other cool water species, like walleye and pike, and even includes catfish. The author covers each species in a seperate chapter. Covering items such as prefered habitat, spawning, water temperature, fishing methods, and fly ...

Berryman's Shakespeare

4 reviews
John Berryman

Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2001

Fine Addition to Shakespeare Criticism
This posthumous collection of essays, letters, and unfinished writings by John Berryman is one of the most vivid and interesting works of Shakespearean literary criticism I've read. Berryman's insightful essay on "Shakespeare at Thirty" is alone worth the cover price. The real heart of the book is the author's lectures on Shakespeare's body of work, from the earliest comedies to "Shakespeare's ...

The Monk : Original Text, Variant Readings and A Note on the Text

1 review
Matthew G. ; Peck, Louis F. ; Berryman, John Lewis

Grove Press, 1952

THE MONK, by Matthew G. Lewis
I found this an unexpected page-turner, even more than two centuries after its initial publication. A practising Catholic, I didn't spot nearly as much anti-Papist sentiment as I'd expected -- perhaps Lewis assumed his readership's feelings on the subject, and felt no need to underline them -- but what do we make of the Spanish Inquisition being cast in the role of the Cavalry Charging to the ...

Homage to Mistress Bradstreet: Drawings by Ben Shahn

1 review
Berryman, John Berryman

Farrar Straus Giroux, 1956

His best,
probably, because he was sober; an aria rather than a jazz riff.

Carp on the Fly: A Flyfishing Guide

7 reviews
Barry Reynolds, Brad Befus, ...

Spring Creek Press, 1997

You're Fishing For WHAT?
I can finally come out of the closet! Yes, I fish for Carp. Initially with bait but now with a fly rod. This book is a super introduction to the freshwater Bonefish. Carpfishing on the Fly has all you need to get started. Whether it's tackle, tactics or fly patterns you're looking for it's in this book. Of course, there is a great section on why to fish for carp as well as sections on the ...

John Berryman: Selected Poems (American Poets Project)

3 reviews
John Berryman

Library of America, 2004

Will serve to introduce a whole new generation to his work
John Berryman: Selected Poems is the latest addition to the outstanding "American Poets Project" series from The Library of America. Deftly edited for the reader by poet and essayist Kevin Young, this is the the showcase collection of poetry by the Pulitzer Prize winning John Berryman and will aptly serve to introduce a whole new generation to his work that ranges from wrenching religious poems ...

Pike on the Fly: The Flyfishermans Guide to Northerns, Tigers, and Muskies

6 reviews

Spring Creek Press, 1993

Think like a predator!
I had the privilege to work on a TV show called HIGH COUNTRY OUTDOORS with Barry the same year he and John wrote PIKE ON THE FLY. I devoured this book and still have it on my shelf in close reach. The techniques aren't just old hackneyed phrases but are true tested tactics gleaned from Barry's experiences. I know of no better way to understand the ways of flyfishing for pike and other large ...

Recovery

2 reviews
John Berryman

Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973

Intriguing, self-lacerating, hopeful novel of victory over addiction
John Berryman was working on "Recovery" when he died, and in these pages there is hope of some ultimate victory over addiction. In the character of Alan Severance is the thinly-veiled personality of the poet himself, self-deprecating and perfectionist, attempting to overcome despair in a hospitalized addict's routine of recognition and confrontation. It is by no means an uplifting triumph to ...

Monk

34 reviews
Matthew G. Lewis

Grove Press, Inc.

An astounding and absorbing novel....
I had wanted to read this for quite awhile so when I happened on it in a bookstore (such luck! HARD to find classic gothic literature in ANY bookstore) I snatched it right up. I was surely not let down. This book is glorious, it sneaks up on you and you can't put it down. It's not as "well written" as some other gothic classics such as "Mysteries of Udolpho" or "Melmoth the Wanderer" in my ...

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