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Subject: BERRYMAN, JOHN (1914-1972)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` APOLOGY, by GEORGE PALMER GARRETT JR.    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Berryman wrote sonnets and published them, too
Last Line: I believe in you always as I believe my own name
Alternate Author Name(s): Garrett, George
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Poetry And Poets


BERRYMAN'S DEAD, by JOHN CLELLON HOLMES    Poem Source                    
First Line: The most important happening
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Poetry And Poets


DEATH OF JOHN BERRYMAN, by WILLIAM DICKEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Henry went over the edge of the bridge first; he always did
Last Line: To what it could never understand as being the human shore
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Homosexuality; Poetry And Poets


FOR JOHN BERRYMAN, by DESMOND EGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Riveted girders blur of carfaces
Last Line: Towards the lighted the innocent skies
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Poetry And Poets


FOR JOHN BERRYMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're dead, what can I do for you?
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Poetry & Poets


FOR JOHN BERRYMAN, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You're dead, what can I do for you?
Last Line: That thinks to live in that knowledge %is praiseworthy
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Poetry And Poets


I HARDLY DREAM OF ANYONE WHO IS STILL ALIVE', by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Red auerbach fumed into my sleep last night
Last Line: Cannot erase the presence of the dead, %every wrinkled face of which is mine
Subject(s): Auerbach, Arnold ("red"); Berryman, John (1914-1972); Dreams; John Paul Ii, Pope; Poetry And Poets


IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE LATE AUTHOR OF DREAM SONGS, by WILLIAM MEREDITH    Poem Full Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Friends making off ahead of time
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972)


JOHN BERRYMAN, by KARL J. VANDER HORCK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's been a year now, john
Last Line: A huddle of need indeed, %but now we can't talk
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Poetry And Poets


JOHN BERRYMAN LISTENING TO ROBERT JOHNSON'S 'KING OF THE DELTA BLUES', by DAVID WOJAHN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Am I a dead man? Am I a dead man?
Last Line: The gin with ice cube, lemon twist
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Blues (music); Jazz; Johnson, Robert (1913-1938); Music And Musicians; Poetry And Poets; Singing And Singers


POEM WITH CAPITAL LETTERS, by JANE MARVEL COOPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: John berryman asked me to write a poem about roosters
Last Line: And even princeton struts like one god's betters?
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


REPLY TO A DREAM SONG, by KATHERINE MCALPINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Maybe them macho poets should not marry, man
Last Line: Weren't all that keen on women, anyway
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Man-woman Relationships; Poetry And Poets; Women's Rights


TROPISMS ON JOHN BERRYMAN, by GERALD VIZENOR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The poet spilled my gin
Last Line: Counting the common strokes of the empty wings
Subject(s): Berryman, John (1914-1972); Poetry And Poets