- Paperback: 128 pages
- Publisher: Faber and Faber (19 Feb 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0571207871
- ISBN-13: 978-0571207879
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 9.6 x 1.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,467,389 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The response of one writer to the work of another can be doubly illuminating. In the 'Poet to Poet' series, a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past whom they have particularly admired.
Robert Lowell (1917-77) was born in Boston. Life Studies, published in 1959, was a watershed in American poetry, initiating an autobiographical project that became the dominating feature of his work.
Michael Hofmann was born in Freiburg, Germany, in 1957. He has published four collections of poetry, most recently Approximately Nowhere (1999).
About the Author
Robert Lowell (1917-1977) was born in Boston. He was recognised as an accomplished poet in his own lifetime, and along with Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman and Sylvia Plath he created the fashion and generated the force of American poetry over the 1950s, 60s, and 70s. Life Studies, published in 1959, marked a watershed. It initiated an autobiographical project which would dominate his oeuvre thereafter, and is now regarded as one of the most influential books of the century. He received a Pulitzer Prize for Lord Weary's Castle (1946) and another for The Dolphin (1973).
Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001). Ashes for Breakfast - his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published in 2008.
Michael Hofmann was born in 1957 in Freiburg, Germany, and came to England in 1961. He has published four volumes of poems and won a Cholmondeley Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize for poetry. His translations have won many awards, including the Independent's Foreign Fiction Award, the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and the P.E.N./Book of the Month Club Translation Prize. His reviews and criticism are gathered in Behind the Lines (2001). Ashes for Breakfast - his translations of the poetry of Durs Grunbein - appeared in 2005, and his Selected Poems was published in 2008.
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Lowell is a poetic chameleon, and the shifting tides of his poetry can make his work seem so varied that another poet could have penned each work. Belonging to Berryman's school of the feigned 'confessional', Lowell teases and torments the reader with sharply honed syntax and verse like a well wrought urn. This particular bite sized package does Lowell no favours as the disjointed nature of his talent, and his paradigm shifts are magnified. Inexplicably, Hofmann creates a near homage to Lowell's later work, neglecting almost entirely his earlier critically respected work, and thus creates a skewed impression of this sly genius. However, Lowell's technical mastery, humour and melancholy shine through, and like his homage to Berryman, Lowell does use the language like he made it. This collection is the work of a master almost dwarfed by a horribly small selection of Lowell's towering talent.
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