The Robert Lowell Revival: Peter Davison
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) is back, in spirit and in a massive new edition of Collected Poems. I feel him hovering again over a surreal presidential campaign. In Eugene McCarthy’s anti-Vietnam insurrection of 1967 and 1968, Lowell was the spooky presence often in the car with the candidate, or at his side, bearing witness as […]