“As you might imagine, over the years, many people heard stories about my family. And they said, Hey, why don’t you write a memoir? I really wasn’t very interested in writing a memoir as I perceived a memoir to be, so the idea of spending years working on a book about the issues in my immediate […]
The work of Robert Lowell has always been colored by his legendary bouts with mental illness. Now, Kay Renfield Jamison’s “Setting the River on Fire” looks at the intersection of poetry and madness. Essay by Troy Jollimore.