[Rarebooks] FS: John Berryman's DREAM SONG, Fine Inscription with Robert Frost Reference

[Charles Agvent]

BERRYMAN, John. 77 DREAM SONGS. New York: Farrar, Straus &  Giroux
(1964).  First  Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.  INSCRIBED  and
SIGNED  by Berryman with what amounts to a short letter: "To  Anne/and
to  Chis--if,  as Kate & I/hope without knowing anything  really/about
it,  you have got together/again. We were bitterly sorry to/hear--from
William,  not in the least/as gossip--of your separation./Whatever  is
happening  or does,let/me wish you a restoration of the/happiness I so
admired  in  you on/Mr. Frost's  last  summer./Affectionately/John/The
Abbott  Hospital/Minneapolis  3,Minn./22  April  '64."  The  book  was
published  in  April 1964 and awarded the Pulitzer Prize in May  1965.
The  recipients--Anne and Chis--are both referred to in Dream Song 38,
contained  in  this  volume, a poem about Robert  Frost's  death.  The
Abbott  Hospital  was a place of refuge for Berryman when  overwhelmed
by  his  alcoholism. "In hospitals he found his society," Saul  Bellow
wrote  in  his  introduction  to   RECOVERY,  Berryman's  only  novel.
"University  colleagues  were often more philistine, less tolerant  of
poets  than were alcoholics or suicidal girls." Cloth a bit faded  and
lightly  spotted.  Dustwrapper  soiled with small chips at  the  spine
tips. Very Good in Very Good dustwrapper.                     $7500.00

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