Robert Lowell's marginally racist review of this work condemned its "negro minstrelsy.
Robert Lowell's marginally racist review of this work condemned its "negro minstrelsy." One section of this work discusses "Our wounds to time, from all the other times," and includes a dialogue that begins "are you radioactive, pal?" Its final section declares "Everywhere in enormous numbers turkeys will be dying" and begins "My daughter's heavier." This work includes "A strut for Roethke" and "The lay of Ike," as well as a poem declaring "life, friends, is boring. We must not say so." The twenty-ninth section of this collection begins "There sat down, once, a thing" on its main character's heart. Inspired by the suicide of its author's father, this collection originally included 77 poems, was expanded in His Toy, His Dream, His Rest, and focuses on the author's alter ego Henry. For 10 points, name this collection of 385 poems by John Berryman.
Robert Lowell's marginally racist review of this work condemned its "negro minstrelsy.
The Dream Songs