Books
Collected Poems, Robert Lowell, Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter Farrar, Straus and Giroux: 1,186 pp., $45
June 22, 2003
We think of our major cities as metropolises--New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle--and by that measure Boston doesn’t begin to qualify.
Aug. 28, 1994
Entertainment & Arts
A line crops up in Eileen Simpson’s “Poets in Their Youth” at the Itchey Foot (the Mark Taper Forum’s literary cabaret) quoting R.
Sept. 27, 1985
We love the legend of the mad genius, the artist whose unchained mind offers the clearest view of the truth of our world.
March 10, 2017
Randall Jarrell’s Letters, edited by Mary Jarrell (Houghton Mifflin: $29.95) Randall Jarrell was afflicted by whatever consumes the moth that doesn’t fly into the flame.
May 31, 1985
Paul Mariani’s “Lost Puritan: A Life of Robert Lowell,” is a just and readable portrait of the man he views as “the poet-historian of our time,” if not the last of our “influential public poets, poets in the tradition of Emerson, Frost, and Eliot.”
Jan. 1, 1995
With ‘A Splendid Intelligence: The Life of Elizabeth Hardwick,’ Cathy Curtis brings out the first biography of the influential author, critic and editor.
Nov. 16, 2021
Dodgers
Florida Marlin third baseman Mike Lowell is atop the list of players the Dodgers are pursuing in trades, two National League executives said Saturday.
June 1, 2003
Robert Lowell, Collected Prose, edited and introduced by Robert Giroux (Farrar Straus & Giroux: $25) Birds do not interrogate themselves as to the nature of bird song; but poets, at least since the onset of modernism, are obliged to define poetry with every poem they write.
April 8, 1987
A COMMON LIFE: Four Generations of American Literary Friendship and Influence by David Larkin (Simon & Schuster: $25; 512 pp.)
June 19, 1994