The Poetry of John Berryman (1970) 4/6

I ripped this straight from the only existing videotape copy of this astonishing and historically crucial interview. It needs to be shared with the world, not only those with high-end worldcat accounts. Let the chips fall where they may. This interview took place on October 8, 1970. Fifteen months later, on January 7, 1972, John Berryman committed suicide by jumping from the Washington Avenue Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was 57. In this interview, as on the page, Berryman is bristling with life. ................................................................................. THE POETRY OF JOHN BERRYMAN (1970) Brockport Writers Forum (State University of New York College at Brockport) Interviewers: William Heyen & Jerome Mazzaro Produced & Directed for Television by Francis R. Filardo ................................................................................ From John Haffenden's THE LIFE OF JOHN BERRYMAN (1982): "In October, shortly after beginning another slip [from sobriety], Berryman flew to give a reading and be interviewed on videotape at the State University of New York at Brockport. William Heyen, director of the Brockport Writers Forum, who was his host for a visit lasting two days, found himself awed and agitated by Berryman, whose arrival late on Wednesday 7 October had been preceded by erratic and inconsequential phone calls and travel delays. Immediately after the visit, Heyen took copious notes from having 'felt a sense of history in his ...



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