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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionsSelected Poemsby Robert Lowell
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Selected Poems includes over 200 works culled from Robert Lowells books of verseLord Wearys Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. Edited and with a foreword by the poet Frank Bidart, who also edited Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, this volume is a perfectly chosen representation of “the greatest American poet of the mid-century” (Richard Poirier, Book Week). Robert Lowell (1917–77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including For the Union Dead (1964) and Life Studies (1959), both published by FSG, which also published his Collected Poems in 2003. Selected Poems includes over two hundred works culled from Robert Lowell's books of verseLord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. Edited and with a foreword by the poet Frank Bidart, who also edited Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, this revised and expanded edition is a chosen representation of "the greatest American poet of the mid-century" (Richard Poirier, Book Week). Edited and with a foreword by the poet Frank Bidart, this revised and expanded edition of over two hundred works culled from Lowell's book of verse is a chosen representation of "the greatest American poet of the mid-century" (Richard Poirier, Book Week). "The concise but passionate prose of Frank Bidart's brief introductory essay argues that Lowell is more than the upper-crust Yankee his cultural references can make him seem to be. Lowell's confessional frankness and personal subject matter don't merely make a self-serving self-portrait; as Bidart writes, 'Robert Lowell was a transgressive artisthis art again and again broke taboos, both thematic and formal. If what you're looking for from your poetry is redemption and honesty in a distinctively American key, you won't find it in denser form anywhere else, Lowell asks elemental questions about memory, family, America and art, and his intimacy distills a compassion for all."Katie Peterson, Chicago Tribune "Selected Poems [has] resuscitated conversation about one of the most stylish and ambitious poets of the 20th century. The features that make Lowell exciting to readtechnical brilliance, as well as the instinct to deviate from it; a persuasive, public, rhetorical voice; dark interiorityare all on display in Selected Poems. What is also here, which Lowell excluded from the earlier Selected, is '91 Revere Street,' a remarkable prose memoir that demonstrates just how clear he was capable of being about his life."Los Angeles Times “Selected Poems demonstrates with unequivocal clarity that Robert Lowells poems, not the least bit dated, remain as stunning and impressive now as they seemed back then, when they took American poetry by storm six decades ago.”Steve Kowit, The San Diego Union-Tribune "This selectiona much-expanded version by Bidart of Lowell's own late-life cullingbrings the Herculean effort of restoring Lowell's oeuvre to print and prominence near completion. Next to the colossal Collected Poems, this is a formidable book in its own right, offering a distilled view of the arc of Lowell's whole career and of each of his individual books. From the early formal triumphs of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs to the seminal Life Studies (which is presented here in its entirety and includes what may be Lowell's most overarching characterization of his work: 'I myself am hell'); from the tense and arguably unscrupulous sonnets of History and For Lizzie and Harriet to the dark resolve of The Dolphin and Day by Day: all of Lowell's varied modes are generously represented, along with Bidart's notes from Collected Poems. This book finally makes the breadth of Lowell's great achievement accessible in a single, portable volume."Publishers Weekly (starred review) Review:"With Collected Poems (2003) and last year's Letters, this selection — a much-expanded version by Bidart of Lowell's own late-life culling — brings the Herculean effort of restoring Lowell's oeuvre to print and prominence near completion. Next to the colossal Collected Poems, this is a formidable book in its own right, offering a distilled view of the arc of Lowell's whole career and of each of his individual books. From the early formal triumphs of Lord Weary's Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs to the seminal Life Studies (which is presented here in its entirety and includes what may be Lowell's most overarching characterization of his work: 'I myself am hell'); from the tense and arguably unscrupulous sonnets of History and For Lizzie and Harriet to the dark resolve of The Dolphin and Day by Day: all of Lowell's varied modes are generously represented, along with Bidart's notes from Collected Poems. This book finally makes the breadth of Lowell's great achievement accessible in a single, portable volume." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
Synopsis:." . .Over 200 works, culled from each of Lowell's books of verse. . . are a perfectly chosen representation of 'the greatest American poet of the mid-century.'"--Richard Poirier, "Book Week."
Synopsis:Selected Poems includes over 200 works culled from Robert Lowell's books of verse--Lord Weary's Castle, The Mills of the Kavanaughs, Life Studies, For the Union Dead, Near the Ocean, History, For Lizzie and Harriet, and The Dolphin. Edited and with a foreword by the poet Frank Bidart, who also edited Collected Poems of Robert Lowell, this volume is a perfectly chosen representation of "the greatest American poet of the mid-century" (Richard Poirier, Book Week). About the AuthorRobert Lowell (1917-77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including For the Union Dead (1964) and Life Studies (1959), both published by FSG, which also published his Collected Poems in 2003. Table of ContentsForeword by Frank Bidart
From Lord Weary's Castle (1946) The Exile's Return The Holy Innocents Colloquy in Black Rock The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket In Memory of Arthur Winslow (Death from Cancer) Mary Winslow The Drunken Fisherman Between the Porch and the Altar The Ghost In the Cage At the Indian Killer's Grave Mr. Edwards and the Spider After the Surprising Conversions The Death of the Sheriff (Noli Me Tangere) Where the Rainbow Ends From The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951) The Mills of the Kavanaughs Falling Asleep over the Aeneid Her Dead Brother " 41 Mother Marie Therese The Fat Man in the Mirror Thanksgiving's Over
Life Studies (1959) Part One Beyond the Alps The Banker's Daughter Inauguration Day: January 1953 Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich Part Two 91 Revere Street Part Three Ford Madox Ford For George Santayana To Delmore Schwartz Words for Hart Part Four: LIFE STUDIES I. My Last Afternoon with Uncle Devereux Winslow Dunbarton Grandparents Commander Lowell Terminal Days at Beverly Farms Father's Bedroom For Sale Sailing Home from Rapallo During Fever Waking in the Blue Home After Three Months Away II. Memories of West Street and Lepke Man and Wife "To Speak of Woe That Is in Marriage" Skunk Hour
From For the Union Dead (1964) Water The Old Flame Middle Age The Mouth of the Hudson Fall 1961 Florence Eye and Tooth Alfred Corning Clark Child's Song The Public Garden Going to and fro Myopia: a Night The Drinker Hawthorne Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts Tenth Muse The Neo-Classical Urn Caligula July in Washington Buenos Aires Soft Wood New York 1962: Fragment The Flaw Night Sweat For the Union Dead
From Near the Ocean (1967) Near the Ocean 1. Waking Early Sunday Morning 2. Fourth of July in Maine " 3. The Opposite House 4. Central Park 5. Near the Ocean
From History (1973) History Man and Woman Alexander Death of Alexander Hannibal I. Roman Disaster at the Trebia Marcus Cato 234-149 B.C. Marcus Cato 95-46 B.C. Cicero, the Sacrificial Killing Nunc est bibendum, Cleopatra's Death Juvenal's Prayer Attila, Hitler Mohammed Death of Count Roland Joinville and Louis IX Dante 3. Buonconte Dames du Temps Jadis Coleridge and Richard II Bosworth Field Sir Thomas More Anne Boleyn Death of Anne Boleyn Charles V by Titian Marlowe Mary Smart Rembrandt The Worst Sinner, Jonathan Edwards' God Watchmaker God Robespierre and Mozart as Stage Saint-Just 1767-93 Napoleon Waterloo Beethoven Coleridge The Lost Tune Margaret Fuller Drowned Abraham Lincoln Verdun Dream of Fair Ladies Serpent Words Sunrise Randall Jarrell I. October 1965 Randall Jarrell 2 Randall Jarrell 3 T. S. Eliot Ezra Pound William Carlos Williams Robert Frost Stalin Caracas The March I The March 2 Worse Times Ulysses Fever Two Walls For Robert Kennedy 1925-68 For Eugene McCarthy Publication Day Lévi-Strauss in London The Nihilist as Hero Reading Myself For Elizabeth Bishop 4 Death and the Bridge Ice End of a Year
From For Lizzie and Harriet (1973) Part One Harriet, born January 4,1957 Harriet Elizabeth These Winds (Harriet) Harriet Part Two Snake Christmas Tree Dear Sorrow Harriet's Dream Left Out of Vacation Das Ewig Weibliche Our Twentieth Wedding Anniversary (Elizabeth) The Hard Way (Harriet) Words for Muffin, a Guinea-Pig End of Camp Alamoosook (Harriet) Bringing a Turtle Home Returning Turtle Growth (Harriet) The Graduate (Elizabeth) Long Summer No Hearing No Hearing Outlivers (Harriet and Elizabeth) My Heavenly Shiner (Elizabeth) It Did (Elizabeth) Seals Obit
From The Dolphin (1973) Fishnet Window The Serpent Symptoms Voices 3ld Snapshot from Venice 1952 Fall Weekend at Milgate Mermaid In the Mail Flounder Exorcism Plotted The Couple Artist's Model Mermaid Emerging Angling Leaf-Lace Dress Late Summer at Milgate Robert Sheridan Lowell Careless Night Wildrose Ivana Lost Fish Sick Plane-Ticket Christmas Christmas Dolphin
From Selected Poems (1976) NINETEEN THIRTIES First Things First Love 1930's Searching 1930's 1930's 1930's Bobby Delano 1930's Long Summers Long Summers Long Summers 1930's 1930's Anne Dick 1.1936 Anne Dick 2. 1936 Father Mother and Father 1 Mother and Father 2 Returning Mother, 1972 Father in a Dream Tb Daddy Will Not Come Back " 284 MEXICO Mexico (1, 3-10) Eight Months Later i. Eight Months Later " 292 2. Die Gold-Orangen " 292
From Day by Day (1977) Ulysses and Circe Our Afterlife 1 For John Berryman Square of Black In the Ward DAY BY DAY from Part I The Day Domesday Book Marriage from Part II Robert T. S. Lowell For Sheridan Grass Fires St. Mark's, 1933 Suburban Surf from Part III Ten Minutes Notice Shifting Colors Unwanted The Downlook Thanks-Offering for Recovery Epilogue
From Last Poems (1977) Summer Tides
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