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 ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttv8x3.2 Despite career-long unevenness in the quality of his work, John Berryman has become a major American poet, has ...