Dolphin by Lowell Robert Lowell
Brand: St. Martins Press
Product Description
I have sat and listened to too many words of the collaborating muse and plotted perhaps too freely with my life not avoiding injury to others not avoiding injury to myself to ask compassion . . . this book half fiction an eelnet made by man for the eel fighting my eyes have seen what my hand did. Winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry The Dolphin was controversial from the beginning many of the poems include the letters that Robert Lowells wife the celebrated writer and critic Elizabeth Hardwick wrote to him after he left her for the English socialite and writer Caroline Blackwood. He was warned by many among them Elizabeth Bishop that art just isnt worth that much. Nevertheless these poems are a powerful document of an impulsive love and a moving record of Lowells change from one life and marriage in America to a new life on new terms with a new family in England rendered with the stunning technical power and control for which he was so celebrated. This new edition which follows the 1973 edition includes scans of the pages of Lowells original manuscript giving us a look into the brilliant and complicated mind of one of our most beloved and distinguished poets. show more
Condition : New
Author : Lowell Robert Lowell
Weight : 556
Publisher : St. Martins Press
Language : English
EAN : 9780374538279
ISBN10 : 0374538271
Format : Paperback
Date of Publication : 20200303
Place of Publication : New York United States
Pagination : 224 Pages
Dimensions : 177 X 254 X 17