The Boston Globe, April 15th, 2007
BOOK REVIEW Robert Lowell: Selected Poems Edited by Frank Bidart Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 420 pp., paperback, $18 Frank Bidart's services to Robert Lowell have been many: Three years ago he, along with David Gewanter, edited Lowell's 1,200-page "Collected Poems"; now he has made a selection roughly a third as long. The year before his death, in 1977, Lowell published his own version of "Selected Poems"; the major additions in the new book are poems from his final volume, "Day by Day," larger selections from "For the Union Dead" and "History," as well as 60 pages of Bidart's and Gewanter's note...
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