Review
I cannot imagine a finer introduction to Lowell's poetry for both the general reader and scholar --
Camille Roman, coeditor of The New Anthology of American Poetry
From the Back Cover
Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. As a herald of the New Poetry, she saw herself and her writing as a part of a newly forged American people registering its consciousness in different tonalities, but all in a native idiom. Except for the few poems that appear in American literature anthologies, most of her work has been long out of print.
The release of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell will be a major event for readers who have not been able to find a representative sampling of work from this vigorous poet who gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility.