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Robert lowell reading his own poems sound recording of twentiethcentury poetry in english series, library of congress, 1978. Otters slide and dive and slick back their hair, raccoons clean their meat in the creek. I have read perhaps 25% of it at this point, but im moving on to other books. Lowell s editor and friend frank bidart notes in his afterword to lowell s collected poems, lowell is widely, perhaps indelibly associated with the. Long awaited and much anticipated, collected poems is a showstopping assertion of lowells ambition, industry and art. Frank bidart and david gewanter have compiled the definitive editio. Frank bidart and david gewanter have compiled a definitive edition of lowells poems, from the early triumph. Lowells collected poems offers the first opportunity to view the entire range of his astonishing verse. He is best known for his volume life studies 1959, but his true greatness as an american poet lies in the astonishing variety of his work.
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