Notebook 1967-68: Poems

By Robert Lowell

Book Overview

A cycle of unrhymed sonnets dealing with public and private crises, marriage, middle age, and fatherhood, Notebook 1967 - 68 is considered by many readers to be one of Robert Lowell's most innovative and searching works. Yet these freeform sonnets (which Lowell reworked in later volumes) are not included in their original form in his Collected Poems . Praised by Seamus Heaney for its "immediate, unprepossessing, blunt-edged force," Notebook 1967 - 68 is a key to Lowell's later style and a landmark in twentieth-century poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374532109
• ISBN13: 9780374532109
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.3" x 0.6" x 5.5"

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.