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again for David, first of all
They came a departure.
A typo, or perhaps not, in the first poem of John
Berryman’s, 77 Dream Songs, then titled 76 Dream Songs,
submitted by Farrar, Straus to the printer, 1963.
Contents
1 Progress
4 a
5 Aubade with Grass, Some Trees
6 In June
8 Once Made of Feathers and an Ounce of Blood
12 Divide
13 Beauty
14 In the Book of Myth
15 Prehistory
16 The Ice Floe
17 A Bat in the House
18 Doing that Thing to the Field
19 Mudfest
20 The Mermaids
21 Triptych in Grief and Life-Glad
II
1 Water at Night
2 Dickinson in the Desert
3 Dickinson in Snow
4 Dickinson in the Woods
5 Dickinson and the Future
6 Dickinson’s Twenty-First Century
7 The Class of 1940
8 Aubade with Bird
9 The Young Husband
10 Book and Screen
11 RE:
12 Big Little
13 The Pulse of the Nation
14 Little Handheld, Little Movie in a Phone
15 Stray, Repeating, Human
16 When I Think about the First Pope to Quit
17 Song in Winter
18 Piece of Old Cornice among Trees and Random Trash
19 Hospital
20 Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle Back from the Dead Talking Endlessly on a Tiny TV
21 Old Words
22 Private Garden, Open to the Public
23 It Moves
24 Before and Every After
III
1 Singular
2 Never Body
3 Tool & Shade
4 There Came a Point in the Brutal Winter
5 Glint
6 Aubade Off-Site, with Mirror and Self
7 I Get to Float Invisible
8 Island
9 I Do Not Close the Curtains
10 Reading in Bed
11 Photo and Photo and Photo
12 Six Tuscan Poets
13 Track
14 If Only
15 Future Lives of the Past
16 A Translation of Frogs
17 What Held the Cathedral Aloft
18 Whole Conversations as a Creature Almost Credible
19 Walking Backwards
20 The Art of Poetry
21 Aubade Under
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