Parnassus : Poetry in Review, January 1st, 2003
The Return of Robert Lowell Robert Lowell. Collected Poems. Edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter. Farrar, Straus & Giroux 2003. 1186 pp. $45.00 Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed; the rising sun in war paint dyes us red; in broad daylight her gilded bed-posts shine, abandoned, almost Dionysian. ("Man and Wife") Who can forget the shock waves generated by these lines, appearing in a slim book called Life Studies in 1959? For me, the memory is very much alive: 1959 was the year my second daughter was born and I was having a hard time of it. Two children under the age of thre...
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