Wow! You are so lucky! Wow, Lowell is amazing. I know a Poet who interviewed Borges, and Borges relayed an anecdote about Lowell coming to his apartment and pacing back and forth and speaking in an exacerbated manner about 'this-and-that.' until Borges's Mother came in and yelled at Lowell to be quiet. Borges asked his Mother how he could be so confrontational and she said, "That's how you have to talk to crazy people!"
Wow! You are so lucky! Wow, Lowell is amazing. I know a Poet who interviewed Borges, and Borges relayed an anecdote about Lowell coming to his apartment and pacing back and forth and speaking in an exacerbated manner about 'this-and-that.' until Borges's Mother came in and yelled at Lowell to be quiet. Borges asked his Mother how he could be so confrontational and she said, "That's how you have to talk to crazy people!"
You are one of the great modren poets. Thank you our poet Mr. ROBERT
His Juvenal translations are the best thing I have ever heard
Why do we feel we need to always compare poets to one another... Let's just enjoy it.
Comparing one voice to another?
amazing.the best poet in the world
Robert Lowell’s poetry is high caliber work. I find him as a person and his poetry both fascinating !
Berryman is dope. 'Demand me again what Kafka's parables mean [.]'
This is a poem. Christ, is it.
Christ perhaps confirms, a poem it is.
So John Vanderslice just ripped this off.
Lowell was a big man, yet his voice was somewhat thin and reedy, amid his strange accent -- part New England, part Southern ala Kenyon College --
tried to imitate John Crowe Ransom
Seriously? What the heck was it like?
John Berryman kicks Lowells ass. Lowell blathers on and an and on ...about nothing, and uses sophomoric metaphors.
Lowell's awful, grandiose elocution utterly ruins what is a good poem on the page.