New Selected Poems by Robert Lowell (PDF)

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In this condensed edition of Selected Poems, Robert Lowell’s poems are brought together from all of his books of verse. Chosen and introduced by Katie Peterson on the occasion of Robert Lowell’s one hundredth birthday, New Selected Poems offers a perfectly chosen and illuminating representation of one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.

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⭐This is a taste of Lowell, which is quite good, but not enough. Lowell is not read enough–for a time he was one of the most significant poets on the US poetry landscape–and this serves as a strong introduction. But most readers of poetry will probably want his collected/complete works.

⭐Unlike previously published collections, this one includes a sampling from each of his many published works.

⭐I used this book for my Boston Poetry Now class at BU. It is the perfect length and it has a gorgeous introduction by Katie Peterson. I highly recommend this if you’re not doing the Collected.

⭐This is an excellent selection of Lowell’s poems by Katie Peterson with her very intelligent introduction.

⭐He’s a treasure. It’s wonderful to see the new selected poems.

⭐Nice binding; good paper. Lowell is a majestic poet.

⭐Excellent product, excellent service.

⭐Gift for my husband, who loves it.

⭐In her long-ish but highly lucid introduction, the editor Katie Peterson says, ‘I wanted to hear Lowell’s career as a voice, to capture this sense of living in time in a human-scale, lively way. … But I also wanted to choose poems memorable for their language, not simply the vanishing facts of story. I wanted to show how Lowell remained constitutionally immune to any stultifying permanence either of form or of spirit’. This she does admirably: her edition moves swiftly and discerningly through the early work of Lord Weary’s Castle and The Mills of the Kavanaughs (just one selection from the latter), giving a sense of the fledgling Lowell but ensuring readers get reasonably swiftly to the masterpiece, Life Studies, from which she chooses the best poems (‘Beyond the Alps’, ‘For Sale’, ‘Sailing Home from Rapallo’, ‘Skunk Hour’, etc.) while leaving enough room to include the whole of ’91 Revere Street’, the prose piece from that book. I would’ve liked to see a few more of Lowell’s Imitations (just three included, and not the best ones in my view) to represent his wide-ranging literary curiosity (especially some Baudelaire translations, given that he republished those poems later in their own illustrated book, The Voyage), but that is a small quibble with an otherwise fine book. After that, Peterson’s choices from For the Union Dead are all spot-on, and she gives enough room to the endless blank sonnets of Notebook/History/For Lizzie and Harriet/The Dolphin without allowing them to overburden the selection as a whole. Finally, good choices are made from The Dolphin and Day by Day, and the volume ends with his last poem, ‘Summer Tides’.All in all, it’s a very impressive book, from its sensible paperback size (240 or so pages) to its index of titles and first lines (not always the case with selected poems). Peterson’s thorough but never dull introduction, in which she navigates Lowell’s biography (including good, balanced discussion of his privilege and heritage as a well-off New Englander), creative method and reading, and reputation/legacy, is a good starting place for a newcomer; it resists being over-simple, offering thoughts rather than dictating views. The sections which moralize about the modern world (Facebook, Trump, the fetishization of mental-health diagnoses) are a little wearying, but the essay as a whole will appeal to readers new and old.

⭐This selection can probably be considered definitive. Some of the poems are deathless, of course, others (as I am rediscovering) are too numinous for my outlook.

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