Alcohol and Poetry: John Berryman and the Booze Talking

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AND THE BOOZE TALKING t [PES : a . ; ALCOHOL AND POETRY: JOHN BERRYMAN AND THE BOOZE TALKING by LEWIS HYDE Tn looking at the relationship between alcohol and poetry I am working out of two of my own experiences. For two years I was a counselor with alcoholics in the detoxification ward of a city hospital. I am also a writer and, when I was an undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, I knew John Berryman (briefly, not intimately). Berryman was alcoholic. It is my…

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