"Art Just Isn't Worth That Much"
Two new books revisit the writing of Robert Lowell's sonnet sequence The Dolphin, and its reworking of the letters his wife, Elizabeth Hardwick, sent him during their divorce. "Now in The Dolphin Letters, Hamilton has edited Hardwick’s side of the correspondence, paired it with Lowell’s letters to her, and in this curious way brought together again two people who were never fully separated and never fully reunited."
viaNEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Prageeta Sharma on Marjorie Welish's "Some Street Cries"
“In Welish’s work I saw an embrace of the most wild, abstract and observational in Stevens, informed with her renewed freshness in constructing the image and its possible abstract correlative. She creates her own set of notes in her poems. Her book The Windows Flew Open broadened my universe of what the poem could be and hold as its subject: a language fueled from living in the mind." |
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