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Poems

poetry by Berryman

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John Berryman
Early poems
Two other volumes of poetry—Poems (1942) and The Dispossessed (1948)—followed. A richly erotic autobiographical sequence about a love affair, Berryman’s Sonnets, appeared in 1967. Berryman was a versatile man of letters: “The Lovers” appeared in The Best American Short Stories of 1946, and his story “The Imaginary Jew” (1945)…
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Two other volumes of poetry—Poems (1942) and The Dispossessed (1948)—followed. A richly erotic autobiographical sequence about a love affair, Berryman’s Sonnets, appeared in 1967. Berryman was a versatile man of letters: “The Lovers” appeared in The Best American Short Stories of 1946, and his story “The Imaginary Jew” (1945)…
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