Short Poems.

NY: Farrar, Straus, & Giroux (1967). First edition. 120 pp. Very near fine in very near fine dust jacket. This volume collects many of Berryman’s short lyrics and brief lyric sequences, excluding of course his two masterpieces, the early HOMAGE TO MISTRESS BRADSTREET and THE DREAM SONGS of middle-to-late career. However, the volume manages to sample a wide range: from his earliest work–THE DISPOSSESSED of 1948–to a much later poem, ‘Formal Elegy,’ written in memory of JFK.