{"product_id":"john-berryman-selected-poems-book-john-berryman-9781931082693","title":"John Berryman: Selected Poems","description":"\"Staggering, swaggering, intoxicating\": John Berryman achieved a poetry where (in the words of editor Kevin Young) \"protagonists search for a lover or friend, ancestor or listener, with a recklessness that only Whitman allowed himself. . . . Berryman becomes Everyman attempting, falling short of, and often achieving greatness.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Young's selection, the first new selection of Berryman's poems in over 30 years, encompasses the formal accomplishments of his early work, epitomized in the masterful \u003ci\u003eHomage to Mistress Bradstreet\u003c\/i\u003e; the explosive and mesmerizing diction of \u003ci\u003eDream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, and his wrenching religious poems.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e At once traditional and radical, Berryman was a master of technique who remade language with gusto. No poet of his time wrote more distinctively or inventively, or with more relentless intensity. With its formal exuberance and its uncompromising, often heartbreaking expressiveness, his poetry continues to surprise and challenge.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the American Poets Project\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today's most discerning poets and critics.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575388283153,"sku":"GOR008286157","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49985952743697,"sku":"CIN1931082693G","price":6.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52526843887889,"sku":"GOR014549818","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52981855584529,"sku":"CIN1931082693VG","price":7.17,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1931082693.jpg?v=1751282172","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/john-berryman-selected-poems-book-john-berryman-9781931082693","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}