Gift us with long cloaks & adrenaline: on reading and its consolations
With unexpected bonus content courtesy of Cardinal Rinuccini
Berryman has been ‘in the air’ on substack recently. A week or so ago I was in the middle of composing a note asking whether anyone still read him when I saw one from Paul Franz saying that the summer issue of Literary Imagination will carry a review of the new edition of Berryman’s unpublished Dream Songs. And now Robert Potts, who has learnt all of the original 77 Dream So…
