Dear All, Another possible provenance for the Laurie Anderson title Mister Heartbreak is John Berryman's Dream Songs. The passage goes, "Mr. Heartbreak, the New Man,/come to farm a crazy land..." I would go on, but that's all of it the epigraph of Jonathan Raban's American travelogue "Hunting Mister Heartbreak" gives. Aren't epigraphs wonderful? Best, David