Collected Poems

Collected Poems

<p>Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, <i>Land of Unlikeness</i>; to the early triumph of <i>Lord Weary's Castle</i>, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in <i>Imitations</i>; to the late spontaneity of <i>The Dolphin</i>, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, <i>Day by Day</i>. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. <i>Collected Poems </i>at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.</p>