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hundred Sonnets in my pocket, old,
    to read her if she came. Presently the sun
    yellowed the pines & my lady came not
    in blue jeans & a sweater. I sat down & wrote.

ALSO BY JOHN BERRYMAN
    POETRY
    Poems (1942)
    The Dispossessed (1948)
    Homage to Mistress Bradstreet (1956)
    His Thought Made Pockets & The Plane Buckt (1958)
    77 Dream Songs (1964)
    Short Poems (1967)
    Homage to Mistress Bradstreet and Other Poems (1968)
    His Toy, His Dream, His Rest (1968)
    The Dream Songs (1969)
    Love & Fame (1970)
    Delusions, Etc. (1972)
    Henry’s Fate & Other Poems, 1967–1972 (1977)
    Collected Poems 1937–1971 (1989)
    The Heart Is Strange (2014)
    PROSE
    Stephen Crane: A Critical Biography (1950)
    The Arts of Reading (with Ralph Ross and Allen Tate)(1960)
    Recovery (1973)
    The Freedom of the Poet (1976)
    Berryman’s Shakespeare (1999)

Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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    Copyright © 1952, 1967 by John Berryman
    Copyright renewed © 1995 by Kate Berryman
    Introduction copyright © 2014 by April Bernard
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    Published in 1967 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
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