Latest News:

【2020 Archives】

A Partial List of Things John Berryman Found Delicious

By Elon Green

Arts & Culture

Berryman-Paris-Review-600

  • Saul Bellow’s “Leaving the Yellow House”[1]
  • His own poetry[2]
  • Autolycus of The Winter’s Tale, deemed an “irrelevance”[3]
  • “Bunny,” met in London[4]
  • The Irish, who “all speak English and are blazing with self-respect”[5]
  • A stone[6]
  • A breeze[7]
  • Theodore Roethke’s detail[8]
  • A tribute, written by T. S. Eliot, about Ralph Hodgson[9]
  • Dialogue in Don Quixote[10]
  • An unspecified “new taste sensation”[11]
  • Your “end”[12]
  • An unspecified “author,” also “rational & passionate”[13]
  • The body of a married woman, seen in a restaurant[14]
  • His friend Ernest Milton Halliday’s marks at Columbia University[15]
  • Risk[16]

[1]Saul Bellow’s foreward to Recovery/Delusions, Etc.
[2]Saul Bellow’s foreward to Recovery/Delusions, Etc.
[3]Berryman’s Shakespeare
[4]Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
[5]Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
[6]“Dream Song 121”
[7]“Dream Song 339”
[8]Freedom of the Poet
[9]Freedom of the Poet
[10]Freedom of the Poet
[11]“Gislebertus’ Eve”
[12]“Shirley & Auden”
[13]“A Prayer for the Self”
[14]“Dream Song 4”
[15]John Berryman and the Thirties: A Memoir
[16]Stephen Crane

Elon Green is a freelance writer who oftentimes contributes to The Awl.

 

Related Articles

  • Panic in Textopolis
    2025-06-25 23:44
  • A plague of locusts has descended upon our great country, so I've decided to retire
    2025-06-25 23:09
  • How refugee parents use Facebook and WhatsApp to teach kids new skills
    2025-06-25 22:20
  • iPhone X price guide: Apple versus AT&T, Verizon, T
    2025-06-25 22:13
  • Nudging the Lexicon
    2025-06-25 22:04
  • Joe Biden 2020 could actually happen
    2025-06-25 21:57
  • Indie game dares to talk about death in a way few others have
    2025-06-25 21:56
  • Netflix Sony release Stranger Things x Ghostbusters Reebok sneakers
    2025-06-25 21:35
  • Voting off the Apprentice President
    2025-06-25 21:28
  • The U.S. wants access to tech data stored in the U.K.
    2025-06-25 21:18