{"product_id":"77-dream-songs-by-john-berryman-9780571400225","title":"77 Dream Songs","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis edition of \u003cem\u003e77 Dream Songs\u003c\/em\u003e faithfully replicates the iconic jacket, format, and setting of the first edition, published in 1964.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe poem then, whatever its wide cast of characters, is essentially about an imaginary character (not the poet, not me) named Henry, a white American in early middle age sometimes in blackface, who has suffered an irreversible loss and talks about himself sometimes in the first person, sometimes in the third, sometimes even in the second; he has a friend, never named, who addresses him as Mr Bones and variants thereof. Resquiescant in pace. —John Berryman\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhere did it all go wrong? There ought to be a law\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAgainst Henry.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e-Mr Bones: there is.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n(Dream Song 4)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll is risk and variety here. This great Pierrot's universe is more tearful and funny than we can easily bear... No voice now or persona sticks in my ear as his. It is poignant, abrasive, anguished, humorous... —Robert Lowell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48317909762284,"sku":"9780571400225","price":12.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571400225-77-dream-songs-1.jpg?v=1788748863","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/77-dream-songs-by-john-berryman-9780571400225","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}