Author: Edited by Melissa Bradshaw and Adrienne Munich
Subject: Poetry/Literary Studies/Women's Studies
Paper ISBN 0-8135-3128-4
Cloth ISBN 0-8135-3127-6
Pages: 180 pp.
Description: Amy Lowell reemerges in a revelatory volume of her selected poems--the first to appear in decades.
Praise for Selected Poems of Amy Lowell
"A wise selection of Amy Lowells 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
"What a joy to have Amy Lowells 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 Traditions in English
"I cannot imagine a finer introduction to Lowells 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
Amy Lowell (18741925) was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. As a herald of the New Poetry, she saw herself and her writing as a part of a newly forged American people registering its consciousness in different tonalities, but all in a native idiom. Except for the few poems that appear in American literature anthologies, most of her work has been long out of print.
The release of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell will be a major event for readers who have not been able to find a representative sampling of work from this vigorous poet who gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility.
Click here to read an interview with the editors of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell.
Melissa Bradshaw is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Barat College of DePaul University. Adrienne Munich is a professor of English and womens studies at SUNYStony Brook. She is the author of Queen Victorias Secrets and Andromedas Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art and coeditor of Arms and the Woman and Remaking Queen Victoria.
