Step Five
“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being, the exact nature of our wrongs.”
Step Six
“Were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.”
Step Seven
“Humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.”
Step Eight
“Made a list of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.”
Step Nine
“Made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.”
Step Ten
“Continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.”
Step Eleven
“Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God as we understood Him, praying only for knowledge of His will for us and the power to carry that out.”
Step Twelve
“Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to alcoholics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.”
Notes
1 From the second (1972) edition, Berryman deleted six poems.
2 See here.
3 Three poems from The Black Book, a verse sequence about the Jews under Hitler, are preserved in Mr. Berryman’s Short Poems, here.
Copyright © 1973 by the Estate of John Berryman
DESIGNED BY HERB JOHNSON
eISBN 9781466808058
First eBook Edition : February 2012
“The Imaginary Jew” copyright 1945 by John Berryman,
copyright renewed 1973 by Kate Berryman
Foreword copyright © 1973 by Saul Bellow
All rights reserved
Library of Congress catalog card number: 72-84779
ISBN 0-374-24817-6
FIRST EDITION, 1973
Published simultaneously in Canada by Doubleday Canada Ltd., Toronto
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