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Paperback: 1216 pages
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Reprint edition (April 3, 2007)
I believe that Lowell's work is best viewed through this expansive collection. No single book of his poetry truly captures the full breadth of his literary accomplishments. Of course, if you're only looking for an introduction to his work, Life Studies or For the Union Dead would probably do.
But if you really want to understand the full scope of his talent, then this book is indispensable. I would even go so far as to say that this book will probably cement Lowell's place among America's finest poets in years to come.
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Not having read Robert Lowell's poems previously, I was delighted with their acessiblity and being a Boston area resident, I enjoyed their local references. I think I had hesitated to read another "confessional" poet having had my fill of Plath, but Lowell is very different and poem after poem pleased me.
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Goodness gracious. I've been working through this gargantuan tome for several years and I've finally finished it.
What to say about Lowell...
I was so intimidated and excited to start reading him that I made sure to get a hardcover version of this book over at The Strand because I knew that I'd be taking extensive notes and that it would become holy to me.
I'm happy to say that I DID takes notes (so many on some pages that I can barely make out the poem) and it did become holy in the way that great works which you love so much they're hard to look at straight on become.
Lowell is a genius. I don't use that word frivolously. The poems in Lord Weary's Castle are so formally and acoustically PERFECT that it's daunting to even consider that those poems aren't his most famous. But they're difficult to LOVE in the sense that they're SO cold and PERFECT and MADE and, as is characteristic of his early work, quite abstract. I mean the latter in the sense that the poems are not yet fully lyrical or what later became known as "confessional" though Lowell despised that term.
So of course, poems like "Skunk Hour" and "Beyond the Alps" are just breathtaking. But "Waking Early Sunday Morning" from Near The Ocean might just be the most perfect poem I've read. Its content is so majestically married to its form and sound that my first reaction upon finishing it was honestly to ask myself why I even bother to write at all. I'm still working through that.
No one is going to say something about the desperate sublimity of the modern condition BETTER than that. It's done. I suppose the best any artist can do is try again and again to get at that truth using the marble Lowell cut away to sculpt his masterpiece.Read more ›
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