{"product_id":"memoirs-9781250872869","title":"Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA complete collection of Robert Lowell's autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Lowell's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/i\u003e is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell's lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemoirs \u003c\/i\u003ealso includes intense depictions of Lowell's mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell's reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. \u003ci\u003eMemoirs \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates Lowell's expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell's achievement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes black-and-white photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobert Lowell \u003c\/b\u003e(1917-1977) was the renowned and pathbreaking author of many leading works in American poetry, including \u003ci\u003eLife Studies \u003c\/i\u003e(FSG, 1959), \u003ci\u003eFor the Union Dead\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 1964), and \u003ci\u003eDay by Day\u003c\/i\u003e (FSG, 1977). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eSteven Gould Axelrod \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eRobert Lowell: Life and Art\u003c\/i\u003e and S\u003ci\u003eylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words\u003c\/i\u003e; the coauthor of \u003ci\u003eRobert Lowell: A Reference Guide\u003c\/i\u003e; and the coeditor of the three-volume \u003ci\u003eNew Anthology of American Poetry. \u003c\/i\u003eThe president of the Robert Lowell Society, he is a distinguished professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eGrzegorz Kosc \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of \u003ci\u003eRobert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRobert Frost's Political Body\u003c\/i\u003e. His writing has been published in \u003ci\u003eThe Wallace Stevens Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePartial Answers\u003c\/i\u003e, among other journals. He is a professor of English and the director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Picador USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50697914712338,"sku":"9781250872869","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_21aeeaae-62ae-4e0f-936f-fc0cb564dc15.jpg?v=1734311554","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/memoirs-9781250872869","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}