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 by: Faraway Star - Mon, 2 Oct 2023 15:45 UTC

Will Dockery wrote:
>
> What a find, it turns out. I came across a nice hardcover copy of a John Berryman book I'd never seen or heard of, "Recovery", at the local used book store a week or so ago, for just a couple of bucks.
>
> I was only aware of John Berryman's poetry, thanks to Rick Howe's comparisons of my poetry with his in a review back in the 1980s... and the Dream Songs poetry. So this was obscure to me, but turns out "Recovery" is obscure, and rare, all around.
>
> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/underrated-tremendous-delirium-the-case-for-berrymans-recovery-1401026.html
>
> "There is a glum irony to the fact that John Berryman's novel Recovery (1973)... Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems. While its structure is simple - in therapy, its autobiographical hero is remorselessly stripped of the delusions which foster his drinking - its pages teem with asides on everything from immunology to Courbet, from Plato's letters to the wisdom of Polonius's homilies..."
>
> "...It was no more than a glimpse: on the morning of 7 January 1972, Berryman threw himself from a bridge over the Mississippi. His legacy was some of the greatest poetry of the post-War period (still in print), some fine literary essays (out of print) and Recovery, a lost, glorious ruin of a novel worth more than any number of glibly polished fictions."
>
> And a great, though slightly harrowing, read.

Mayhaps G.D. can excerpt from this volume..?

PING... George Dance....

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 by: W.Dockery - Thu, 5 Oct 2023 21:07 UTC

Faraway Star wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>> What a find, it turns out. I came across a nice hardcover copy of a John Berryman book I'd never seen or heard of, "Recovery", at the local used book store a week or so ago, for just a couple of bucks.
>>
>> I was only aware of John Berryman's poetry, thanks to Rick Howe's comparisons of my poetry with his in a review back in the 1980s... and the Dream Songs poetry. So this was obscure to me, but turns out "Recovery" is obscure, and rare, all around.
>>
>> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/underrated-tremendous-delirium-the-case-for-berrymans-recovery-1401026.html
>>
>> "There is a glum irony to the fact that John Berryman's novel Recovery (1973)... Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems. While its structure is simple - in therapy, its autobiographical hero is remorselessly stripped of the delusions which foster his drinking - its pages teem with asides on everything from immunology to Courbet, from Plato's letters to the wisdom of Polonius's homilies..."
>>
>> "...It was no more than a glimpse: on the morning of 7 January 1972, Berryman threw himself from a bridge over the Mississippi. His legacy was some of the greatest poetry of the post-War period (still in print), some fine literary essays (out of print) and Recovery, a lost, glorious ruin of a novel worth more than any number of glibly polished fictions."
>>
>> And a great, though slightly harrowing, read.

> Mayhaps G.D. can excerpt from this volume..?

> PING... George Dance....

Good idea, I'll have a look.

;)

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 by: Faraway Star - Wed, 22 Nov 2023 03:02 UTC

On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 4:10:15 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
> Faraway Star wrote:
>
> > Will Dockery wrote:
> >>
> >> What a find, it turns out. I came across a nice hardcover copy of a John Berryman book I'd never seen or heard of, "Recovery", at the local used book store a week or so ago, for just a couple of bucks.
> >>
> >> I was only aware of John Berryman's poetry, thanks to Rick Howe's comparisons of my poetry with his in a review back in the 1980s... and the Dream Songs poetry. So this was obscure to me, but turns out "Recovery" is obscure, and rare, all around.
> >>
> >> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/underrated-tremendous-delirium-the-case-for-berrymans-recovery-1401026.html
> >>
> >> "There is a glum irony to the fact that John Berryman's novel Recovery (1973)... Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems. While its structure is simple - in therapy, its autobiographical hero is remorselessly stripped of the delusions which foster his drinking - its pages teem with asides on everything from immunology to Courbet, from Plato's letters to the wisdom of Polonius's homilies..."
> >>
> >> "...It was no more than a glimpse: on the morning of 7 January 1972, Berryman threw himself from a bridge over the Mississippi. His legacy was some of the greatest poetry of the post-War period (still in print), some fine literary essays (out of print) and Recovery, a lost, glorious ruin of a novel worth more than any number of glibly polished fictions."
> >>
> >> And a great, though slightly harrowing, read.
>
> > Mayhaps G.D. can excerpt from this volume..?
>
> > PING... George Dance....
> Good idea, I'll have a look.

Find anything.....?

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 by: W.Dockery - Sat, 25 Nov 2023 12:53 UTC

Faraway Star wrote:

> On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 4:10:15 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>> Faraway Star wrote:
>>
>> > Will Dockery wrote:
>> >>
>> >> What a find, it turns out. I came across a nice hardcover copy of a John Berryman book I'd never seen or heard of, "Recovery", at the local used book store a week or so ago, for just a couple of bucks.
>> >>
>> >> I was only aware of John Berryman's poetry, thanks to Rick Howe's comparisons of my poetry with his in a review back in the 1980s... and the Dream Songs poetry. So this was obscure to me, but turns out "Recovery" is obscure, and rare, all around.
>> >>
>> >> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/underrated-tremendous-delirium-the-case-for-berrymans-recovery-1401026.html
>> >>
>> >> "There is a glum irony to the fact that John Berryman's novel Recovery (1973)... Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems. While its structure is simple - in therapy, its autobiographical hero is remorselessly stripped of the delusions which foster his drinking - its pages teem with asides on everything from immunology to Courbet, from Plato's letters to the wisdom of Polonius's homilies..."
>> >>
>> >> "...It was no more than a glimpse: on the morning of 7 January 1972, Berryman threw himself from a bridge over the Mississippi. His legacy was some of the greatest poetry of the post-War period (still in print), some fine literary essays (out of print) and Recovery, a lost, glorious ruin of a novel worth more than any number of glibly polished fictions."
>> >>
>> >> And a great, though slightly harrowing, read.
>>
>> > Mayhaps G.D. can excerpt from this volume..?
>>
>> > PING... George Dance....
>> Good idea, I'll have a look.

> Find anything.....?

Not yet, haven't had time to look.

🙂

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 by: General-Zod - Tue, 28 Nov 2023 20:19 UTC

Will Dockery wrote:

> Faraway Star wrote:

>> On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 4:10:15 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> Faraway Star wrote:
>>> > Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>> >> What a find, it turns out. I came across a nice hardcover copy of a John Berryman book I'd never seen or heard of, "Recovery", at the local used book store a week or so ago, for just a couple of bucks.
>>> >>
>>> >> I was only aware of John Berryman's poetry, thanks to Rick Howe's comparisons of my poetry with his in a review back in the 1980s... and the Dream Songs poetry. So this was obscure to me, but turns out "Recovery" is obscure, and rare, all around.
>>> >>
>>> >> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/underrated-tremendous-delirium-the-case-for-berrymans-recovery-1401026.html
>>> >>
>>> >> "There is a glum irony to the fact that John Berryman's novel Recovery (1973)... Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems. While its structure is simple - in therapy, its autobiographical hero is remorselessly stripped of the delusions which foster his drinking - its pages teem with asides on everything from immunology to Courbet, from Plato's letters to the wisdom of Polonius's homilies..."
>>> >>
>>> >> "...It was no more than a glimpse: on the morning of 7 January 1972, Berryman threw himself from a bridge over the Mississippi. His legacy was some of the greatest poetry of the post-War period (still in print), some fine literary essays (out of print) and Recovery, a lost, glorious ruin of a novel worth more than any number of glibly polished fictions."
>>> >>
>>> >> And a great, though slightly harrowing, read.
>>>
>>> > Mayhaps G.D. can excerpt from this volume..?
>>>
>>> > PING... George Dance....
>>> Good idea, I'll have a look.

>> Find anything.....?

> Not yet, haven't had time to look.

Right on I know what meaning of that is...

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 by: W.Dockery - Sat, 2 Dec 2023 04:11 UTC

General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> Faraway Star wrote:

>>> On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 4:10:15 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> Faraway Star wrote:
>>>> > Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>>> >> What a find, it turns out. I came across a nice hardcover copy of a John Berryman book I'd never seen or heard of, "Recovery", at the local used book store a week or so ago, for just a couple of bucks.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I was only aware of John Berryman's poetry, thanks to Rick Howe's comparisons of my poetry with his in a review back in the 1980s... and the Dream Songs poetry. So this was obscure to me, but turns out "Recovery" is obscure, and rare, all around.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/underrated-tremendous-delirium-the-case-for-berrymans-recovery-1401026.html
>>>> >>
>>>> >> "There is a glum irony to the fact that John Berryman's novel Recovery (1973)... Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems. While its structure is simple - in therapy, its autobiographical hero is remorselessly stripped of the delusions which foster his drinking - its pages teem with asides on everything from immunology to Courbet, from Plato's letters to the wisdom of Polonius's homilies..."
>>>> >>
>>>> >> "...It was no more than a glimpse: on the morning of 7 January 1972, Berryman threw himself from a bridge over the Mississippi. His legacy was some of the greatest poetry of the post-War period (still in print), some fine literary essays (out of print) and Recovery, a lost, glorious ruin of a novel worth more than any number of glibly polished fictions."
>>>> >>
>>>> >> And a great, though slightly harrowing, read.
>>>>
>>>> > Mayhaps G.D. can excerpt from this volume..?
>>>>
>>>> > PING... George Dance....
>>>> Good idea, I'll have a look.

>>> Find anything.....?

>> Not yet, haven't had time to look.

> Right on I know what meaning of that is...

Good evening my friend, hope you and Mike are having a great Friday night so far.

🙂

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 by: General-Zod - Tue, 12 Dec 2023 20:19 UTC

Will Dockery wrote:

> Faraway Star wrote:

>> On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 4:10:15 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>>> Faraway Star wrote:
>>> > Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>>> >> What a find, it turns out. I came across a nice hardcover copy of a John Berryman book I'd never seen or heard of, "Recovery", at the local used book store a week or so ago, for just a couple of bucks.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> I was only aware of John Berryman's poetry, thanks to Rick Howe's comparisons of my poetry with his in a review back in the 1980s... and the Dream Songs poetry. So this was obscure to me, but turns out "Recovery" is obscure, and rare, all around.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/underrated-tremendous-delirium-the-case-for-berrymans-recovery-1401026.html
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> "There is a glum irony to the fact that John Berryman's novel Recovery (1973)... Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems. While its structure is simple - in therapy, its autobiographical hero is remorselessly stripped of the delusions which foster his drinking - its pages teem with asides on everything from immunology to Courbet, from Plato's letters to the wisdom of Polonius's homilies..."
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> "...It was no more than a glimpse: on the morning of 7 January 1972, Berryman threw himself from a bridge over the Mississippi. His legacy was some of the greatest poetry of the post-War period (still in print), some fine literary essays (out of print) and Recovery, a lost, glorious ruin of a novel worth more than any number of glibly polished fictions."
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> And a great, though slightly harrowing, read.
>>>>>
>>>>> > Mayhaps G.D. can excerpt from this volume..?
>>>>>
>>>>> > PING... George Dance....
>>>>> Good idea, I'll have a look.

>>>> Find anything.....?

>>> Not yet, haven't had time to look.

>> Right on I know what meaning of that is...

> Good evening my friend, hope you and Mike are having a great Friday night so far.

> 🙂

Yo....

Good day...

And God bless....!

Re: Recovery / John Berryman

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Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:36:43 +0000
Subject: Re: Recovery / John Berryman
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 by: W.Dockery - Sat, 10 Feb 2024 05:36 UTC

General-Zod wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:

>> Faraway Star wrote:

>>> On Thursday, October 5, 2023 at 4:10:15 PM UTC-5, Will Dockery wrote:
>>>> Faraway Star wrote:
>>>> > Will Dockery wrote:
>>
>>>>>> >> What a find, it turns out. I came across a nice hardcover copy of a John Berryman book I'd never seen or heard of, "Recovery", at the local used book store a week or so ago, for just a couple of bucks.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> I was only aware of John Berryman's poetry, thanks to Rick Howe's comparisons of my poetry with his in a review back in the 1980s... and the Dream Songs poetry. So this was obscure to me, but turns out "Recovery" is obscure, and rare, all around.
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/underrated-tremendous-delirium-the-case-for-berrymans-recovery-1401026.html
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> "There is a glum irony to the fact that John Berryman's novel Recovery (1973)... Recovery is a fragment, it is a dazzling fragment, every bit as rich and macaberesquely comic as anything in Berryman's better known poems. While its structure is simple - in therapy, its autobiographical hero is remorselessly stripped of the delusions which foster his drinking - its pages teem with asides on everything from immunology to Courbet, from Plato's letters to the wisdom of Polonius's homilies..."
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> "...It was no more than a glimpse: on the morning of 7 January 1972, Berryman threw himself from a bridge over the Mississippi. His legacy was some of the greatest poetry of the post-War period (still in print), some fine literary essays (out of print) and Recovery, a lost, glorious ruin of a novel worth more than any number of glibly polished fictions."
>>>>>> >>
>>>>>> >> And a great, though slightly harrowing, read.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > Mayhaps G.D. can excerpt from this volume..?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> > PING... George Dance....
>>>>>> Good idea, I'll have a look.

>>>>> Find anything.....?

>>>> Not yet, haven't had time to look.

>>> Right on I know what meaning of that is...

>> Good evening my friend, hope you and Mike are having a great Friday night so far.

>

> Yo....

> Good day...

> And God bless....!

Likewise my friend.

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