{"product_id":"9780374713591","title":"The Heart Is Strange: New Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively sampling from the work of one of the most celebrated and daring poets of the twentieth century\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohn Berryman was perhaps the most idiosyncratic American poet of the twentieth century. Best known for the painfully sad and raucously funny cycle of Dream Songs, he wrote passionately: of love and despair, of grief and laughter, of longing for a better world and coming to terms with this one. \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Is Strange\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ea new selection of his poems, along with reissues of \u003ci\u003eBerryman's Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e77 Dream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, and the complete \u003ci\u003eDream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, marks the centenary of his birth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     \u003ci\u003eThe Heart Is Strange \u003c\/i\u003eincludes a generous selection from across Berryman's varied career: from his earliest poems, which show him learning the craft, to his breakthrough masterpiece, \"Homage to Mistress Bradstreet,\" then to his mature verses, which find the poet looking back upon his lovers and youthful passions, and finally, to his late poems, in which he battles with sobriety and an increasingly religious sensibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The defiant joy and wild genius of Berryman's work has been obscured by his struggles with mental illness and alcohol, his tempestuous relationships with women, and his suicide. This volume, which includes three previously uncollected poems and an insightful introduction by the editor Daniel Swift, celebrates the whole Berryman: tortured poet and teasing father, passionate lover and melancholy scholar. It is a perfect introduction to one of the finest bodies of work yet produced by an American poet.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104209617136,"sku":"9780374713591","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780374713591_p0.jpg?v=1769917207","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780374713591","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}