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Written & audio book performed by Robert Lowell - Edited by J.D. McClatchy - Unabridged Selections - 1 CASSETTE + companion book containing the text of the poems

Publisher, Random House Audiobooks (April 2000)

The second installment of our exclusive The Voice of the Poet series, comprised of rare archival recordings, some never before released, featuring Robert Lowell.

This audio production is accompanied by a book containing the text to the poems and a commentary by J.D. McClatchy.

About the Author: Volume by volume, Robert Lowell revealed the age in which he lived, both drawing its portrait and animating its conscience. At the time of his death, he was the most prominent and honored American poet of his generation. Born in Boston, the heir to a patrician family, Lowell was instinctively rebellious. His troubled family history, broken marriages, and manic-depressive episodes became the subjects of his poems and marked a shift from the dense rhetoric of his early work toward a more open, confessional style. He was a great poet and our truest historian.

J.D. McClatchy is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, and since 1991 has been the editor of The Yale Review. He is the author of four books and poems: Scenes from Another Life, Stars Principal, The Rest of the Way, and The Ten Commandments. He has edited a number of books, including The Vintage Book of Contemporary American Poetry and The Vintage Book of Contemporary World Poetry.