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       again for David, first of all

       They came a departure.

      A typo, or perhaps not, in the first poem of John

      Berryman’s, 77 Dream Songs, then titled 76 Dream Songs,

      submitted by Farrar, Straus to the printer, 1963.

      Contents

        Title Page

        Note to Reader

       I

      1  Progress

      2  The Painting

      3  The Breathing

      4  a

      5  Aubade with Grass, Some Trees

      6  In June

      7  We’re Not Insects

      8  Once Made of Feathers and an Ounce of Blood

      9  Notation Gregorian

      10  Song Again, in Spring

      11  Long Ago into the Future

      12  Divide

      13  Beauty

      14  In the Book of Myth

      15  Prehistory

      16  The Ice Floe

      17  A Bat in the House

      18  Doing that Thing to the Field

      19  Mudfest

      20  The Mermaids

      21  Triptych in Grief and Life-Glad

       II

      1  Water at Night

      2  Dickinson in the Desert

      3  Dickinson in Snow

      4  Dickinson in the Woods

      5  Dickinson and the Future

      6  Dickinson’s Twenty-First Century

      7  The Class of 1940

      8  Aubade with Bird

      9  The Young Husband

      10  Book and Screen

      11  RE:

      12  Big Little

      13  The Pulse of the Nation

      14  Little Handheld, Little Movie in a Phone

      15  Stray, Repeating, Human

      16  When I Think about the First Pope to Quit

      17  Song in Winter

      18  Piece of Old Cornice among Trees and Random Trash

      19  Hospital

      20  Dr. Arthur Conan Doyle Back from the Dead Talking Endlessly on a Tiny TV

      21  Old Words

      22  Private Garden, Open to the Public

      23  It Moves

      24  Before and Every After

       III

      1  Singular

      2  Never Body

      3  Tool & Shade

      4  There Came a Point in the Brutal Winter

      5  Glint

      6  Aubade Off-Site, with Mirror and Self

      7  I Get to Float Invisible

      8  Island

      9  I Do Not Close the Curtains

      10  Reading in Bed

      11  Photo and Photo and Photo

      12  Six Tuscan Poets

      13  Track

      14  If Only

      15  Future Lives of the Past

      16  A Translation of Frogs

      17  What Held the Cathedral Aloft

      18  Whole Conversations as a Creature Almost Credible

      19  Walking Backwards

      20  The Art of Poetry

      21  Aubade Under

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