Collected Poems by Robert Lowell and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at AbeBooks.com. Let the sea-gulls wail For water, for the deep where the high tide Mutters to its hurt self, mutters and ebbs. The Collected Poems of Robert Lowell is a massive volume that is a fitting monument to one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. Who can remember what his father said? As a teenager, in 1967, I remember reading these lines of Lowell's quoted in a review of … The oxen drool and start In wonder at the fenders of a car, And blunder hugely up St. Peter's hill. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. This massive book - almost 1,200 pages of poetry and notes - has been long awaited in poetry … --Peter Davidson, The Atlantic Monthly Like “And blue-lung'd combers lumbered to the kill.” ― Robert Lowell, Lord Weary's Castle. Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2019, Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 19, 2018. Aber die zweite Hälfte, die gehört sicherlich Robert Lowell. II. Hardcover, 9780374125530, 0374125538 Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. also an accomplished poet. Please try again. FSG also published his Collected Prose in 1987. What it cost Them is their secret. Continues... Long awaited and much anticipated, [Collected Poems] is a show-stopping assertion of Lowell's ambition, industry and art.” —Carmine Starnino, The Boston Globe“[The new collection of Robert Lowell's poems] will doubtless stand as The Work . VI. Blurb For the first time, the collected poems of America's preeminent postwar poet Edmund Wilson wrote of Robert Lowell that he was the "only recent American poet--if you don't count Eliot--who writes successfully in the language and cadence and rhyme of the resounding English tradition." Robert Lowell (1917–77) was the renowned and controversial author of many books of poetry, including Day by Day (FSG, 1977), For the Union Dead (FSG, 1964), and Life Studies (FSG, 1959). One of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, ... One of the most admired American poets of his generation, James Wright (1927-80) wrote contemplative, . The item Collected poems, Robert Lowell ; edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter ; with the editorial assistance of DeSales Harrison represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in DC Public Library System. Sea-gulls blink their heavy lids Seaward. Black Mud, a name to conjure with: O mud For watermelons gutted to the crust, Mud for the mole-tide harbor, mud for mouse, Mud for the armored Diesel fishing tubs that thud A year and a day to wind and tide; the dust Is on this skipping heart that shakes my house, House of our Savior who was hanged till death. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 13, 2014. Skip to main content.sg. The little wheel is turning on the great In the white water of Christ's blood. This is what it says, the collected works of Robert Lowell. Long awaited, richly documented, and, yes, definitive.” ―Peter Davidson, The Atlantic Monthly“This wonderfully definitive, long-awaited new edition gives us the full scope of a courageous, tormented, shocking, and brilliant American poet.” ―The Washington Post. tags: poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First edition (April 3, 2007), There is a trite saying that it is a fine line between genius and madness, Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017. A list of poems by Robert Lowell. Sailor, can you hear The Pequod's sea wings, beating landward, fall Headlong and break on our Atlantic wall Off 'Sconset, where the yawing S-boats splash The bellbuoy, with ballooning spinnakers, As the entangled, screeching mainsheet clears The blocks: off Madaket, where lubbers lash The heavy surf and throw their long lead squids For blue-fish? Man kriegt viel Buch fürs Geld. Something went wrong. On Corpus Christi, heart, Over the drum-beat of St. Stephen's choir I hear him, Stupor Mundi, and the mud Flies from his hunching wings and beak-my heart, The blue kingfisher dives on you in fire. Under St. Peter's bell the parish sea Swells with its smelt into the burlap shack Where Joseph plucks his hand-lines like a harp, And hears the fearful Puer natus est Of Circumcision, and relives the wrack And howls of Jesus whom he holds. In Black Mud Stephen the martyre was broken down to blood: Our ransom is the rubble of his death. Christ Child, your lips are lean and evergreen Tonight in Black Rock, and the moon Sidles outside into the needle-screen And strikes the hand that feeds you with a spoon Tonight, as drunken Polish night-shifts walk Over the causeway and their juke-box booms Hosannah in excelsis Domino. - Publishers Weekly. Long awaited, richly documented, and, yes, definitive.” —Peter Davidson, The Atlantic Monthly“This wonderfully definitive, long-awaited new edition gives us the full scope of a courageous, tormented, shocking, and brilliant American poet.” —The Washington Post, ©1997-2021 Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Inc. 33 East 17th Street, New York, NY 10003. however intelligent, still the underlying theme: it's all about me. In the sperm-whale's slick I see the Quakers drown and hear their cry: "If God himself had not been on our side, If God himself had not been on our side, When the Atlantic rose against us, why, Then it had swallowed us up quick." Christ walks on the black water. In the great ash-pit of Jehoshaphat The bones cry for the blood of the white whale, The fat flukes arch and whack about its ears, The death-lance churns into the sanctuary, tears The gun-blue swingle, heaving like a flail, And hacks the coiling life out: it works and drags And rips the sperm-whale's midriff into rags, Gobbets of blubber spill to wind and weather, Sailor, and gulls go round the stoven timbers Where the morning stars sing out together And thunder shakes the white surf and dismembers The red flag hammered in the mast-head. Don't browse. Fall And winter, spring and summer, guns unlimber And lumber down the narrow gabled street Past your gray, sorry and ancestral house Where the dynamited walnut tree Shadows a squat, old, wind-torn gate and cows The Yankee commandant. Whenever winds are moving and their breath Heaves at the roped-in bulwarks of this pier, The terns and sea-gulls tremble at your death In these home waters. 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