Witchflower Days: Berryman, Picasso, and Tyler

Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Berryman, Picasso, and Tyler

Birthday of poet John Berryman, born John Smith in Oklahoma (1914). He had published a few collections of poetry that went largely unnoticed when he began an affair with a graduate student one summer and fell helplessly in love with her. He wrote a sonnet about her after their first kiss, and... Sign in to see full entry.

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