Two Dream Songs
$200 · Offered by Biblioctopus
First edition · Signed
No place : John Berryman, 1965. First edition. One sheet folded to make four pages. A trifle age-toned, thus near fine. Issued by John and Kate Berryman as a Christmas greeting. This copy Signed on the front wrap by Jean Stafford. Stafford was at one time the wife of Robert Lowell, and their friendship with Berryman is related in *Poets in Their Youth* by Berryman's ex-wife, Eileen Simpson. Why Stafford signed the card is a mystery, presumably it is her
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