Notebook 1967-68 Poems

by Lowell, Robert; Galassi, Jonathan

• ISBN13: 9780374532109
• ISBN10: 0374532109
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-15
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Summary

A cycle of unrhymed sonnets dealing with public and private crises, marriage, middle age, and fatherhood,Notebook 196768is considered by many readers to be one of Robert Lowell's most innovative and searching works. Yet these freeform sonnets (which Lowell reworked in later volumes) are not included in their original form in hisCollected Poems. Praised by Seamus Heaney for its "immediate, unprepossessing, blunt-edged force,"Notebook 196768is a key to Lowell's later style and a landmark in twentieth-century poetry. Robert Lowell (1917-77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, includingDay by Day,For the Union Dead, andLife Studies. FSG publishes hisCollected Poems and The Letters of Robert Lowell, among other works. A cycle of unrhymed sonnets dealing with public and private crises, marriage, middle age, and fatherhood,Notebook 196768is considered by many readers to be one of Robert Lowell's most innovative and searching works. Yet these freeform sonnets (which Lowell reworked in later volumes) are not included in their original form in hisCollected Poems. Praised by Seamus Heaney for its "immediate, unprepossessing, blunt-edged force,"Notebook 196768is a key to Lowell's later style and a landmark in twentieth-century poetry."Robert Lowell is, by something like a critical consensus, the greatest American poet of the mid-century . . . Lowell has created the language, cool and violent all at once, of contemporary introspection."Richard Poirier,Book Week "The most exacting poet of his time . . . Few legacies could be more enriching."Anthony Lane,The New Yorker "[InNotebook 196768,] the poet offers an account of his personal history as it has painstakingly ordered itself in images. It is the response of a racked but magnanimous mind, the response of a poet . . . Throughout burns a passionate intelligence, a conscience, which the reader feels is trustworthy."William Meredith,The New York Times Book Review "What Lowell has done is to make poetry difficult again. This has nothing to do with intellectual puzzles: instead, it is the more strenuous creative difficulty of a poetry molded precisely to a powerful and mature talent. [Lowell] appears inNotebookas a very subtle man, unashamedly intelligent, well read and alert, whose poems are at once delicate and piercing."A. Alvarez,The Observer(London)

Author Biography

Robert Lowell (1917–77) was the author of a dozen volumes of poetry, and he twice received the Pulitzer Prize.

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