"A New Collection of Robert Lowell's Nonfiction"
"'My Autobiography' makes up about 40 percent of Memoirs and is easily the best writing in the book. Lowell was always a capable prose writer, but the language on display in this childhood memoir is a good deal more than that. Lowell could be a superb portraitist when he chose to be, and the parade of characters passing through his household (several of whom appear separately in his poems) is memorable and delightful."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Jeevika Verma on Reginald Dwayne Betts' Felon
"He claims the label prison gives him—felon—and says, look, I did make mistakes, and now I am dealing with the consequences. But look, also, at how we lend ourselves to the system. How we dehumanize the incarcerated man. How every time he tries to love, we remind him of when he didn’t—'What name for / this thing that haunts, this thing we become.'" |
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