The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973

ISBN: 0374538271

Author: Lowell, Robert

Condition: New

The Dolphin: Two Versions, 1972-1973 is an expanded edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning provocative poetry collection that crossed the line between art and life.I have sat and listened to too manywords of the collaborating muse,and plotted perhaps too freely with my life,not avoiding injury to others,not avoiding injury to myself-to ask compassion . . . this book, half fiction,an eelnet made by man for the eel fightingmy eyes have seen what my hand did.Winner of the 1973 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Robert Lowells The Dolphin was controversial from the beginning: many of the poems include letters from Robert Lowells wife, the celebrated writer and critic Elizabeth Hardwick, wrote to him after he left her for the English socialite and writer Caroline Blackwood. He was warned by many, among them Elizabeth Bishop, that art just isnt worth that much.Nevertheless, these poems are a powerful document of an impulsive love, and a moving record of Lowells change from one life and marriage in America to a new life on new terms with a new family in England, rendered with the stunning technical power and control for which he was so celebrated.This new edition, which follows the 1973 edition, includes scans of the pages of Lowells original manuscript, giving us a look into the brilliant and complicated mind of one of our most beloved and distinguished poets.