The Dream Songs bitterzoet and how to survive—to live

and how to survive—to live the ethics that a Black feminist lesbian warrior poetics demands

She is a graduate of the Swedish writing programs at Biskops Arnö and HDK-Valand

myth and Russian literary figures

as well as the first critical edition

The Dream Songs bitterzoet and how to survive—to liveJohn Berryman John Berryman's The Dream Songs are perhaps the funniest, saddest, most intricately wrought cycle of poems by an American in the twentieth century. They are also, more simply, the vibrantly sketched adventures of a uniquely American antihero named Henry. Henry falls in and out of love, and is in and out of the hospital, he sings of joy and desire, and of beings at odds with the world. He is lustful; he is depressed. And while Henry is