Tag Archives: The Dream Songs

Dream Song Strategy 305: Like the sunburst up the white breast of a black-footed penguin

I have told how as a teenager I kept a copy of The Dream Songs on my drawing board as I painted animals for the family business, often stopping to read a few, marking my favorites, puzzling over, frankly, most … Continue reading

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Dream Song Strategy 310: Henry, monstrous bug, laid himself down

We learned in looking at Song 25 that Berryman felt the writing of the Songs at times a burden that he had imposed on himself and yet could not lay down. Part of the burden, perhaps the most terrible part, … Continue reading

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Dream Song Strategy 247: A tiger watches from a vector

I’m afraid this isn’t a very good strategy. I succumbed once again to an infatuation, this time the face of a tiger. To compensate here is a reading (it’s one of my favorite Songs) and a few musings. Commentators on … Continue reading

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Dream Song Strategy 203: Truly isolated, pal

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Dream Song Strategy 186: A swivelly grace

The judge in this Song refers to the one who performed Berryman’s wedding ceremony, and this Song is almost too painfully bittersweet to read. Berryman was so sick at the ceremony, and his hand shook so much while trying to … Continue reading

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Dream Song Strategy 168: The Old Poor

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Dream Song Strategy 137: Thought fled into the jungle

This is one of my favorites because (more than many of the others) it deserves to be called a reading strategy. With a minimum of elements—cut and rearranged text, drawn lines, and color—it is intended to be read, emphasizing in … Continue reading

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Dream Song Strategy 135: Guns

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Dream Song Strategy 130: Blood

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Dream Song Strategy 103: Consider a song hummingbird swift

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