Life Studies
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Faber & Faber
Published:8th May '01
Should be back in stock very soon
Life Studies by Robert Lowell, originally published in 1959, is now recognised to be one of the most important and influential collections of American poetry from the twentieth century.
"Heartbreaking, shocking, grotesque and gentle".
Life Studies was first published in 1959.
'In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background that sets off the desperate knife-edged absurdity of the jailed conscientious objector among gangsters and Jehovah's witnesses, the private citizen returning to his baby, older now, from the mental hospital. He sees things as being part of history; if you say about his poor detailedly eccentric, trust-fund Lowells: 'but they weren't,' he can answer: 'They are now.'' Randall Jarrell
ISBN: 9780571207749
Dimensions: 197mm x 132mm x 9mm
Weight: 140g
112 pages
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