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Spring 1999 • Vol. XXI No. 2 • Kenyon Review Classics |

Letter to His Brother

By John Berryman

From the Summer 1939 issue.

 

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In 1945, John Berryman won an early KR contest for short fiction, cosponsored by Doubleday, Doran & Co. Berryman achieved his greatest renown as a poet with the publication of 77 Dream Songs in 1964, which won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

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IAgain—but other faces bend with mineUpon the board—I settle to this gameAnd drive my marbles leaping or in lineToward the goal, the triangular blue aimOf all my red ones, as […]

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