The Boston Globe, March 11th, 1988
WE DREAM OF HONOUR. John Berryman's Letters to His Mother, edited by Richard J. Kelly. Norton. 405 pp. $22.50. Illustrated. JOHN BERRYMAN AND THE THIRTIES. A Memoir, by E. M. Halliday. University of Massachusetts Press. 240 pp. $25 ($10.95, paperback). When "Berryman's Sonnets" was published in 1967, it was greeted with cold "astonishment" by the poet's mother. Martha Berryman's rapport with her by then noted son John, 52, had been, she believed, unreserved. "Not for one instant since I knew you were to come to this earth have I been me, alone, myself," she had written him years earlier; "a mo...
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