John Berryman Author & Editor

John Berryman (1914 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He won the Pulitzer Prize for "77 Dream Songs "in 1965 and the National Book Award and the Bollingen Prize for "His Toy, His Dream, His Rest," a continuation of "The Dream Songs," in 1969. Michael Hofmann is an acclaimed poet, translator, and critic. He has published six books of poetry and has translated more than sixty books from the German, including Gottfried Benn's "Impromptus: Selected Poems and Some Prose," as well as works by Ernst Junger, Franz Kafka, and Joseph Roth. His criticism appears regularly in the "London Review of Books," " The New York Review of Books," and "Poetry." He currently teaches poetry and translation at the University of Florida."