John Berryman: Poems Selected by Michael Hofmann is a wonderful introduction to the incredibly eclectic and vibrant voice that Berryman managed to find, both in his famous sequence The Dream Songs but also elsewhere in his remarkable body of work.
John Berryman (1914-72) was born John Smith in McAlester, Oklahoma,
and educated at Colombia College and Cambridge University. He later
held posts at Harvard and Princeton, before taking up a
professorship at the University of Minnesota.
He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1965 for 77 Dream Songs, and he
continued to build upon this series of poems, publishing the end
result, The Dream Songs, in 1969. His Collected Poems was published
after his death in 1991.
Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to
England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a
Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for
poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the
Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary
Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His
reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001).
Ashes for Breakfast - his translations of the poetry of Durs
Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published
in 2008. His translation of Jenny Erpenbeck's novel Kairos was
winner of the International Booker Prize 2024.
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