{"product_id":"memoirs-9781250872869","title":"Memoirs","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA complete collection of Robert Lowell's autobiographical prose, from unpublished writings about his youth to reflections on the triumphs and confusions of his adult life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRobert Lowell's \u003ci\u003eMemoirs\u003c\/i\u003e is an unprecedented literary discovery: the manuscript of Lowell's lyrical evocation of his childhood, which was written in the 1950s and has remained unpublished until now. Meticulously edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc, it serves as a precursor or companion to his groundbreaking book of poems \u003ci\u003eLife Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, which signaled a radically new prose-inflected direction in his work, and indeed in American poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemoirs \u003c\/i\u003ealso includes intense depictions of Lowell's mental illness and his determined efforts to recover. It concludes with Lowell's reminiscences of other writers, among them T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. \u003ci\u003eMemoirs \u003c\/i\u003edemonstrates Lowell's expansive gifts as a prose stylist and his powers of introspection and observation. It provides striking new evidence of the range and brilliance of Lowell's achievement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes black-and-white photographs\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Picador USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/02\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250872869\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 416\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.25h x 6.12w x 1.00d","brand":"Robert Lowell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43672977932469,"sku":"9781250872869","price":23.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_9606ed6c-a541-4bd8-a1ae-c534ef63422a.jpg?v=1709052434","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/memoirs-9781250872869","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}