‘Nantucket Reader’ and ‘Place Apart’ dip into New England’s ample literary heritage Aug 23, 2009
Robert Lowell s The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket is an elegy for a cousin killed in the explosion of a destroyer during World War II. It begins. A brackish reach of shoal off Madaket --/ The sea was still breaking wildly and night/ Had steamed into our North Atlantic Fleet,/ When the drowned sailor clutched the drag-net. (Boston Globe)
Alice Methfessel, 66, muse to poet Elizabeth Bishop Jul 10, 2009
Unlike her good friend Robert Lowell, whose poetry sometimes burned with confessional fervor, Bishop generally eschewed the personal. But her work changed some during the years she spent with Ms. Methfessel, Schwartz said. (Boston Globe)
Delmore Schwartz is Worth Another L... Jun 25, 2009
Unlike his contemporaries Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman and others, Schwartz is not an important figure in the poetry world today. It could be argued that Berryman, with his postmodern, playful sense of poetry s potentiality and scope, is the most influential of the group. (Suite101.com)
My daughter, the stranger: Apr 12, 2009
" There is a wide and arresting literature on madness, particularly on bipolar 1 (formerly manic depression), the disease that afflicted Sally and many artists before her, including Byron, Sylvia Plath and the poet Robert Lowell. But most of it is written by people who have themselves been psychotic. There are few books written from the perspective of someone close to, but not inside, psychosis - books from "the other shore", as Greenberg puts it. On one level, the story is very simple. Over a... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Flannery O'Connor -- quiet life, disturbing fiction Mar 9, 2009
"One hundred years later, Flannery O'Connor, like Hawthorne, grounding her strange fiction in her homeland, the South, felt a kinship with the Yankee writer.Speaking on the topic "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction" in 1960, O'Connor cited Hawthorne for his ability to raise fiction from the ordinariness of life and "steer it in the direction of poetry. "For both writers, the poetry came from God, but different ones: Hawthorne's was a Calvinist creation, O'Connor's a Roman Catholic... (Sioux City Journal)
Book review: "Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor Feb 28, 2009
Robert Lowell was her great champion, as were Robert Fitzgerald and Robert Giroux. Godmother to one of the Fitzgeralds' six children, she could never remember the child's name. (International Herald Tribune)
Alex Ross: The affordable art of concertgoing. Feb 8, 2009
In league with a six-piece ensemble called yMusic, Kahane presented his song cycle For the Union Dead, on poems of Robert Lowell. The texts challenged Kahane s knack for teasing singable lines out of complex language; at times, the music seemed verbally overstuffed. (New Yorker)
Poet W.D. Snodgrass dies at 83 Feb 7, 2009
Instead, he drifted into some poetry classes and studied with such greats as John Crowe Ransom, Karl Shapiro, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell. After receiving two master's degrees in writing, Snodgrass embarked in 1955 on a nearly 40-year teaching career, which included stints at Cornell University, the University of Rochester, Wayne State University, Old Dominion University and, from 1968 to 1977, Syracuse University. (MSNBC -- Lifestyle)
