The Dispossessed.

BERRYMAN, John.

Item Number: 143526

New York: William Sloane Associates, Inc., 1948.

First edition of the first general collection of the poems of John Berryman. Octavo, original cloth. From the library of renowned American poet, critic, and Princeton professor, Theodore (Ted) Weiss and his wife Reneé Weiss, who collectively edited the well-known Quarterly Review of Literature Magazine for sixty years. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Jacket design by Oscar Ogg.

The Dispossessed includes, collected together for the first time, a wide range of Berryman's poems which appeared previously in a number of literary magazines including The Kenyon Review, Accent, The Southern Review, and The Nation as well as over a dozen anthologies of modern verse. The poems range from the tenderness of "The Ball Poem" or "Canto Amor" to the complex terror of "The Long Home" and the imaginative transformations of modern American life in "The Statue" and "New Year's Eve."