Description
An intense sequence of autobiographical sonnets, this collection transforms the breakdown of a marriage and the beginning of a new love into a searching poetic narrative. Drawing on the author’s relationships with Elizabeth Hardwick and Lady Caroline Blackwood, the poems explore desire, betrayal, memory, guilt, artistic freedom, and the uneasy boundary between private experience and public art. Written in supple, unrhymed verse, the work combines emotional candor with intellectual complexity, inviting readers to consider both the power and the ethical cost of turning lived experience into poetry.
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paperback
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Published Jan 1, 1974
ISBN: 9780374511951
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Details
First Published
1974
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Dolphin by Robert Lowell.