New Selected Poems

by Robert Lowell, Katie Peterson (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780374251338
Publisher:	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date:	02/28/2017
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.40(w) x 8.10(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Robert Lowell (1917–1977) was the renowned and pathbreaking author of many leading works in American poetry, including Life Studies (FSG, 1959), For the Union Dead (FSG, 1964), and Day by Day (FSG, 1977).

Katie Peterson is the author of the poetry collections This One Tree; Permission; The Accounts, winner of the Rilke Prize; and A Piece of Good News. She lives in California and teaches at the University of California, Davis.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

From Lord Weary's Castle (1942)

New Year's Day 3

The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket 4

Buttercups 9

Between the Porch and the Altar 10

In the Cage 14

Mr. Edwards and the Spider 15

Where the Rainbow Ends 17

From The Mills of the Kavanaughs (1951)

from Her Dead Brother 21

From Life Studies (1959)

Beyond the Alps 25

A Mad Negro Soldier Confined at Munich 27

91 Revere Street 28

To Delmore Schwartz 65

Words for Hart Crane 67

Terminal Days at Beverly Farms 68

Father's Bedroom 70

For Sale 71

Sailing Home from Rapallo 72

Waking in the Blue 74

Home After Three Months Away 76

Memories of West Street and Lepke 78

Man and Wife 80

"To Speak of the Woe That Is in Marriage" 81

Skunk Hour 82

From Imitations (1961)

The Infinite 87

The Poet at Seven 88

Pigeons 92

From For the Union Dead (1964)

Water 95

Fall 1961 97

The Lesson 99

Those Before Us 100

Eye and Tooth 101

The Public Garden 103

Jonathan Edwards in Western Massachusetts 104

Caligula 108

July in Washington 110

Soft Wood 111

For the Union Dead 113

From Near the Ocean (1967)

Near the Ocean: I. Waking Early Sunday Morning 119

from Brunetto Latini 123

From Notebook 1967-68 (1969)

Long Summer 127

Five Dreams 134

Close the Book 137

From Notebook (1970)

Pastime 141

From History (1973)

History 145

Napoleon 146

Beethoven 147

Coleridge 148

Abraham Lincoln 149

Bobby Delano 150

Will Not Come Back 151

Sylvia Plath 152

Randall Jarrell 153

Our Dead Poets 154

T. S. Eliot 155

Ezra Pound 156

William Carlos Williams 157

Robert Frost 158

Blizzard in Cambridge 159

For Robert Kennedy 1925-68 160

Dream, the Republican Convention 161

After the Democratic Convention 162

The Nihilist as Hero 163

For Elizabeth Bishop 4 164

End of a Year 165

From For Lizzie and Harriet (1973)

Summer 169

from New York 172

from Circles 174

from Late Summer 177

Obit 180

From The Dolphin (1973)

Fishnet 183

from Redcliffe Square 184

from Hospital I 186

Records 187

Mermaid 188

from Exorcism 191

Plotted 192

The Couple 193

Mermaid Emerging 194

from Another Summer 195

On the End of the Phone 196

Dolphin 197

From Day by Day (1977)

Last Walk? 201

Square of Black 203

The Day 205

Marriage 206

Logan Airport, Boston 209

Grass Fires 211

Suburban Surf 213

Shaving 215

Caroline in Sickness 216

Seesaw 217

Ten Minutes 218

Notice 220

Shifting Colors 221

Unwanted 223

Thanks-Offering for Recovery 227

Epilogue 229

From Last Poems (1977)

Summer Tides 233

Index of Titles and First Lines 235