Robert Lowell Collected Poems - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Bidart and Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work as well as translations never previously collected. This collection at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in 20th-century poetry.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, <i>Land of Unlikeness</i>; to the early triumph of <i>Lord Weary's Castle</i>, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in <i>Imitations</i>; to the late spontaneity of <i>The Dolphin</i>, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, <i>Day by Day</i>. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. <i>Collected Poems </i>at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"Long awaited and much anticipated, [<i>Collected Poems</i>] is a show-stopping assertion of Lowell's ambition, industry and art." --<i>Carmine Starnino, The Boston Globe</i> <p/>"[The new collection of Robert Lowell's poems] will doubtless stand as The Work . . . Long awaited, richly documented, and, yes, definitive." --<i>Peter Davidson, The Atlantic Monthly</i> <p/>"This wonderfully definitive, long-awaited new edition gives us the full scope of a courageous, tormented, shocking, and brilliant American poet." --<i>The Washington Post</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Robert Lowell </b>(1917-77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including <i>Day by Day </i>(FSG, 1977), <i>For the Union Dead </i>(FSG, 1964), and <i>Life Studies </i>(FSG, 1959).</p>
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