• Saul Bellow’s “Leaving the Yellow House”^[1]

• His own poetry^[2]

• Autolycus of The Winter’s Tale, deemed an “irrelevance”^[3]

• “Bunny,” met in London^[4]

• The Irish, who “all speak English and are blazing with self-respect”^[5]

• A stone^[6]

• A breeze^[7]

• Theodore Roethke’s detail^[8]

• A tribute, written by T. S. Eliot, about Ralph Hodgson^[9]

• Dialogue in Don Quixote^[10]

• An unspecified “new taste sensation”^[11]

• Your “end”^[12]

• An unspecified “author,” also “rational & passionate”^[13]

• The body of a married woman, seen in a restaurant^[14]

• His friend Ernest Milton Halliday’s marks at Columbia University^[15]

• Risk^[16]

^[1]Saul Bellow’s foreward to Recovery/Delusions, Etc.
^[2]Saul Bellow’s foreward to Recovery/Delusions, Etc.
^[3]Berryman’s Shakespeare
^[4]Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
^[5]Dream Song: The Life of John Berryman
^[6]“Dream Song 121”
^[7]“Dream Song 339”
^[8]Freedom of the Poet
^[9]Freedom of the Poet
^[10]Freedom of the Poet
^[11]“Gislebertus’ Eve”
^[12]“Shirley & Auden”
^[13]“A Prayer for the Self”
^[14]“Dream Song 4”
^[15]John Berryman and the Thirties: A Memoir
^[16]Stephen Crane

Elon Green is a freelance writer who oftentimes contributes to The Awl.