Notebook 1967-68: Poems

by Robert Lowell

Book Overview

A pivotal book in Robert Lowell's groundbreaking career, Notebook is, as Seamus Heaney has written, "a massive accumulation of unrhymed sonnets, poems of immeditae, unprepossessing, blunt-edged force, which record not so much the public events of the late 1960s] as the reactions which the events provoked in Lowell's consciousness."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374509476
• ISBN13: 9780374509477
• Release Date: April 1995
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

It's Been Years, but the residue...

...of this brilliant volume persists in mind. After all these months spent buried in other books, it's incredible that such lines as "off ering our leathery love/ we're fifty, and free!" stick with me. Lowell's descriptions of souls in Hell is unsettling, while he wears one vital influence (Fugitive John Crowe Ransom), while also tackling world unrest.I will certainly be rereading this book. If there was ever a doubt as to Lowell's genius, it's cut apart by this and other staggering works. A must read.