{"product_id":"9781466879591","title":"Love and Fame","description":"\u003cp\u003eOne of the most astonishing things about this astonishing book is that it follows so closely in time the enormous achievement of the author's \u003ci\u003eDream Songs\u003c\/i\u003e, the first part of which \u003ci\u003e77 Dream Songs,\u003c\/i\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1965 and the second part, \u003ci\u003eHis Toy, His Dream, His Rest,\u003c\/i\u003e the National Book Award for Poetry in 1969.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove\u0026amp;Fame\u003c\/i\u003e is written in a style new for Berryman, new for anybody. The poet talks of his beginnings as an artist' of his loves; of the strange experience of fame (\"Dawdling into glory\"); of violent politics' of a sanatorium in the Midwest (\"Hospital racket, nurses' iron smiles\")' of the whole peculiar business of being and staying alive. The poems are cast in language that is fresh, frank blunt, exuberantly gay, shocking, funny, deeply tragic, and never less than memorable:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThought much I then on perforated daddy, \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003edaddy boxed in\u0026amp;let down with strong straps\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewhen I my friends' homes visited, with fathers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003euniversal\u0026amp;intact.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove\u0026amp;Fame \u003c\/i\u003eculminates in a grave series of \"Eleven Addresses to the Lord.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"...\u003ci\u003eLove\u0026amp;Fame \u003c\/i\u003e(1970), the last book that Berryman saw to publication …[was] the most nakedly confessional of all his books…\" -\u003ci\u003e The Atlantic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169719009520,"sku":"9781466879591","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466879591_p0.jpg?v=1769892042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466879591","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}