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Index
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Contents
Introduction
From The Dispossessed (1948)
Winter Landscape
The Disciple
A Point of Age, Part I
The Traveller
The Ball Poem
The Spinning Heart
The Possessed
Parting as Descent
World-Telegram
The Animal Trainer (2)
Desire Is a World by Night
The Moon and the Night and the Men
A Poem for Bhain
Canto Amor
The Nervous Songs
Young Woman’s Song
The Song of the Demented Priest
A Professor’s Song
The Captain’s Song
The Song of the Tortured Girl
The Lightning
The Long Home
A Winter-Piece to a Friend Away
New Year’s Eve
The Dispossessed
The Cage (1950)
Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1953)
From His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt (1958)
They Have
The Poet’s Final Instructions
from The Black Book (iii)
A Sympathy, A Welcome
American Lights, Seen From Off Abroad
Mr. Pou & the Alphabet (1961)
Formal Elegy (1964)
From Love & Fame (1970)
Cadenza on Garnette
Freshman Blues
Images of Elspeth
Two Organs
Olympus
The Heroes
Recovery
Transit
Message
The Minnesota 8 and the Letter-Writers
Damned
Despair
The Hell Poem
Eleven Addresses to the Lord
“Master of beauty, craftsman of the snowflake”
“Holy, as I suppose I dare to call you”
“Sole watchman of the flying stars, guard me”
“If I say Thy name, art Thou there? It may be so”
“Holy, & holy. The damned are said to say”
“Under new management, Your Majesty”
“After a Stoic, a Peripatetic, a Pythagorean”
A Prayer for the Self
“Surprise me on some ordinary day”
“Fearful I peer upon the mountain path”
“Germanicus leapt upon the wild lion in Smyrna”
From Delusions, Etc. (1972)
Opus Dei
Lauds
Matins
Prime
Interstitial Office
Terce
Sext
Nones
Vespers
Compline
In Memoriam (1914–1953)
Tampa Stomp
The Handshake, The Entrance
Henry by Night
Henry’s Understanding
Damn You, Jim D., You Woke Me Up
A Usual Prayer
‘How Do You Do, Dr Berryman, Sir?’
King David Dances
From Henry’s Fate & Other Poems, 1967–1972 (1977)
“Canal smell. City that lies on the sea like a cork”
“Gulls chains voices bells: honey we’re home”
“Henry under construction was Henry indeed”
“Long (my dear) ago, when rosaries”
“With arms outflung the clock announced: Ten-twenty”
“Good words & irreplaceable: serenade, schadenfreude”
“I’m reading my book backward. It sounds odd”
Phase Four
Epilogue (1942)
Acknowledgments
Index of First Lines
Index of Titles
Also by John Berryman
Copyright
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