Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection,
Land of Unlikeness
; to the early triumph of
Lord Weary's Castle
, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in
Imitations
; to the late spontaneity of
The Dolphin
, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book,
Day by Day
. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work.
Collected Poems
at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.