Columbia Magazine, The Guardian and various other media outlets published moving articles to commemorate poet John Berryman’s centennial,.
For those who don’t know much about the poet, it is a great opportunity to get to know him. For those who do, it is perhaps a chance to learn something new, something more.
“Columbia Magazine’s” piece includes several excerpts from the poet’s work, along with “He Resigns” below:
He Resigns
Age, and the deaths, and the ghosts.
Her having gone away
in spirit from me. Hosts
of regrets come & find me empty.I don’t feel this will change.
I don’t want any thing
or person, familiar or strange.
I don’t think I will singany more just now;
ever. I must start
to sit with a blind brow
above an empty heart.
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