{"product_id":"berrymans-sonnets-john-berryman-9780374534547","title":"Berryman's Sonnets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA brilliant and fiercely pitched sonnet cycle about love: at once passionate, forbidden, and doomed\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJohn Berryman was an unconventional poet, but he must have surprised even himself when, in his thirties, he found he was suddenly compelled to write sonnets. It was an unusual choice--even an unpopular one--for a poet in a midcentury American literary scene that was less interested in forms. But it was the right choice, for Berryman found himself in a situation that called for the sonnet: after several years of a happy marriage, he had fallen helplessly, hopelessly in love with the young wife of a colleague.\u003cbr\u003e \"Passion sought; passion requited; passion delayed; and, finally, passion utterly thwarted\" this is how the poet April Bernard, in her vivid, intimate introduction, characterizes the sonnet cycle, and it is the cycle that Berryman found himself caught up in. Of course the affair was doomed to end, and end badly. But in the meantime, on the page Berryman performs a spectacular dance of tender, obsessive, impossible love in his \"characteristic tonal mixture of bravado and lacerating shame-facedness.\" Here is the poet as lover, genius, and also, in Bernard's words, as nutcase.\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBerryman's Sonnets\u003c\/i\u003e, the poet draws on the models of Petrarch and Sidney to reanimate and reimagine the love-sonnet sequence. Complex, passionate, filled with verbal fireworks and the emotional strains of joy, terror, guilt, and longing, these poems are ripe for rediscovery by contemporary readers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e John Berryman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0374534543\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374534547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Strauss \u0026amp; Giroux-3pl\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/21\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.42lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.53h x 5.51w x 0.46d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/04\/2015 pg. 40","brand":"John Berryman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43946557473023,"sku":"9780374534547","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_acc43811-ad34-489a-9e71-ccbe09cea6e5.jpg?v=1681513829","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/berrymans-sonnets-john-berryman-9780374534547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}