The Selected Letters of John Berryman | Friday Pick
These letters make Berryman less mysterious, more human. Less a sozzled immortal and more a person struggling like all of us.
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Milan Děžinský
We sit and watch the chickadees in the feeder, /
drinking hot tea, a celebration of security /
with dusk’s familiar arrival.
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Nina Kossman
She knew, from her own observation of men, that to pretend to be macho was very difficult. She was so glad that she was not a man that she even called her daughter "Glad-I-am-not-a-man"
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Derek Ellis
these clouds, some /
so light I can see the sky’s //
ridiculous boundary
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Robin Vigfusson
There was a loving relaxation in their postures and she had to remind herself the widow was eighty, ten years older than she was or she’d think they were having an affair.
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