{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-amy-lowell-paperback-softback-9780813531281","title":"Selected Poems of Amy Lowell (Paperback \/ softback) 9780813531281","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSelected Poems of Amy Lowell\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMelissa Bradshaw (Edited by), Adrienne Munich (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780813531281\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 18 September 2002\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e180 pages\u003cbr\u003e1.5 x 18.2 x 1.1 cm, 0.227 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAmy Lowell may ascend again in reputation to join the list of more canonical moderns like Frost, Pound, Wallace Stevens and H.D.(Hilda Doolittle). This volume may start the ascendancy. (HoustonChronicle.com) I cannot imagine a finer introduction to Lowell\u0026amp;AElig;s poetry for both the general reader and scholar. At last we can begin to reassess Lowell in relationship to the other American poets of her generation. - Camille Roman (coeditor of The New Anthology of American Poetry) What a joy to have Amy Lowell\u0026amp;AElig;s brilliant, pioneering, long-underestimated poems back in print! This beautifully introduced and selected volume is sure to be welcomed by a range of general readers as well as by revisionary historians of modernism, feminist critics, and students of American poetry. - Sandra M. Gilbert (coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women: The) A wise selection of Amy Lowell\u0026amp;AElig;s poetry has been long overdue, and this attentively edited volume makes the range of her work in verse and patterned prose attractively available. - John Hollander\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet and critic, was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. Within a thirteen-year period, she produced six volumes of poetry, two volumes of criticism, a two-volume biography of John Keats, and countless articles and reviews that appeared in many popular periodicals. As a herald of the New Poetry, Lowell saw herself and her kind of work as a part of a newly forged, diverse, American people that registered its consciousness in different tonalities but all in a native idiom. She helped build the road leading to the later works of Allen Ginsberg, May Sarton, Sylvia Plath, and beyond. Except for the few poems that invariably appear in American literature anthologies, most of her writings are out of print. This will be the first volume of her work to appear in decades, and the depth, range, and surprising sensuality of her poems will be a revelation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe poetry is organized according to Lowell’s characteristic forms, from traditional to experimental. In each section the works appear in chronological order. Section one contains sonnets and other traditional verse forms. The next section covers her translations and adaptations of Chinese and Japanese poetry, whereby she beautifully renders the spirit of these works. Also included here are several of Lowell’s own Asian-influenced poems. Lowell’s free, or cadenced verse appears in the third part. The last section provides samples of Lowell’s polyphonic prose, an ambitious and vigorous art form that employs all of the resources of poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe release of \u003ci\u003eThe Selected Poems of Amy Lowell \u003c\/i\u003ewill be a major event for readers who have not been able to find a representative sampling of work from this vigorous, courageous poet who gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAcknowledgments and Permissions  \u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Text     \u003cbr\u003e Introductions\u003cbr\u003e ``Let us Shout it Lustily'': Amy Lowell's Career in Context \/ Melissa Bradshaw\u003cbr\u003e Amy lowell, new american poet \/ Adrienne Munich\u003cbr\u003e Chronology  \u003cbr\u003e I. Traditional Forms and Variations\u003cbr\u003e Sonnets, Rhymed Stanzas, and Blank Verse -\u003cbr\u003e A Fixed Idea\u003cbr\u003e On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula\u003cbr\u003e The Starling\u003cbr\u003e Mirage\u003cbr\u003e A Petition\u003cbr\u003e In Answer to a Request\u003cbr\u003e Eleonora Duse\u003cbr\u003e To a Lady of Undeniable Beauty and Practised Charm\u003cbr\u003e Before the Altar\u003cbr\u003e Apology\u003cbr\u003e After Writing ``The Bronze Horses''\u003cbr\u003e Merely Statement\u003cbr\u003e Gavotte in D Minor\u003cbr\u003e Song for a Viola D'Amore\u003cbr\u003e Nuit Blanche\u003cbr\u003e On Looking at a Copy of Alice Meynell's Poems, Given Me, Years Ago, by a Friend \/ The Sisters\u003cbr\u003e Adapted Asian Forms and Translations from the Chinese -\u003cbr\u003e Aliens\u003cbr\u003e The Pond\u003cbr\u003e A Lover\u003cbr\u003e To a Husband\u003cbr\u003e A Year Passes\u003cbr\u003e Ephemera\u003cbr\u003e Autumn\u003cbr\u003e One of the ``Hundred Views of Fuji'' by Hokusai\u003cbr\u003e The Fisherman's Wife\u003cbr\u003e Outside a Gate\u003cbr\u003e In Time of War\u003cbr\u003e Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e Frosty Evening\u003cbr\u003e A Poet's Wife\u003cbr\u003e The Return\u003cbr\u003e Nuance\u003cbr\u003e Autumn Haze\u003cbr\u003e Nuit Blanche\u003cbr\u003e Again the New Year's Festival\u003cbr\u003e Time\u003cbr\u003e Nostalgia\u003cbr\u003e Afterglow\u003cbr\u003e Vespers\u003cbr\u003e The Battle to the South of the City, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e The Retreat of Hsieh Kung, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e The Terraced Road of the Two-Edged Sword Mountains, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e Looking at the Moon after Rain, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e The Lonely Wife, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e On Hearing the Buddhist Priest of Shu Play His Table-Lute, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e Parrot Island, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e Reply to an Unrefined Person Encountered in the Hills, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e Night Thoughts, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e In the Province of Lu, to the East of the Stone Gate Mountain, Taking Leave of Tu Fu, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e A Poem Sent to Tu Fu from Sha Ch'iu Ch'eng, by Li T'ai-po\u003cbr\u003e The River Village, by Tu Fu\u003cbr\u003e The Sorceress Gorge, by Tu Fu\u003cbr\u003e At the Edge of Heaven, Thinking of Li Po, by Tu Fu\u003cbr\u003e Sent to Li Po as a Gift, by Tu Fu\u003cbr\u003e A Toast for Meng Yun-ch'ing, by Tu Fu\u003cbr\u003e The Blue-Green Stream, by Wang Wei\u003cbr\u003e Together We Know Happiness, written by a descendant of the founder of the Southern T'ang Dynasty\u003cbr\u003e II. Cadenced Verse In a Garden\u003cbr\u003e Absence\u003cbr\u003e Aubade\u003cbr\u003e White and Green\u003cbr\u003e The Captured Goddess\u003cbr\u003e The Taxi\u003cbr\u003e The Blue Scarf\u003cbr\u003e The Letter\u003cbr\u003e Pine, Beech, and Sunlight\u003cbr\u003e Astigmatism\u003cbr\u003e The Giver of Stars\u003cbr\u003e Bright Sunlight\u003cbr\u003e Venus Transiens\u003cbr\u003e A Rainy Night\u003cbr\u003e Patterns\u003cbr\u003e Strain\u003cbr\u003e from Stravinsky's Three Pieces ``Grotesques,'' for String Quartet, Second Movement\u003cbr\u003e Summer Rain\u003cbr\u003e A Decade\u003cbr\u003e An Aquarium\u003cbr\u003e Thompson's Lunch Room---Grand Central Station\u003cbr\u003e Opal\u003cbr\u003e Mise en Scene\u003cbr\u003e Wakefulness\u003cbr\u003e A Bather\u003cbr\u003e Madonna of the Evening Flowers\u003cbr\u003e from Dreams in War Time\u003cbr\u003e A Sprig of Rosemary\u003cbr\u003e The Broken Fountain\u003cbr\u003e The Weathervane Points South\u003cbr\u003e The Artist\u003cbr\u003e Vernal Equinox\u003cbr\u003e Penumbra\u003cbr\u003e September. 1918\u003cbr\u003e Granadilla\u003cbr\u003e Carrefour\u003cbr\u003e Lilacs\u003cbr\u003e Meeting-House Hill\u003cbr\u003e Footing Up a Total\u003cbr\u003e Paradox\u003cbr\u003e Purple Grackles\u003cbr\u003e In Excelsis\u003cbr\u003e On Reading a Line Underscored by Keats\u003cbr\u003e Dissonance\u003cbr\u003e Heraldic\u003cbr\u003e Attitude under an Elm Tree\u003cbr\u003e Sultry\u003cbr\u003e The On-looker\u003cbr\u003e Poetic Justice\u003cbr\u003e Mid-adventure\u003cbr\u003e Anecdote\u003cbr\u003e Still Life\u003cbr\u003e III. 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