'After thirty Falls' : New Essays on John Berryman (Dqr Studies in Literature)

A collection of essays to be published on the American poet John Berryman (1914-1972). Exploring such areas as the poet's engagements with Shakespeare and the American sonnet tradition, his use of the Trickster figure and the idea of performance in his poetics, it expands the interpretive framework by which Berryman may be evaluated and studied.