Snelle Levering Words In Air : The Complete Corresponden – Edited By Thomas Travisano

When first introduced to Robert Lowell in 1947, Elizabeth Bishop wrote that ‘he was living in a basement room on Third Avenue . . . and was rather untidy. He was wearing a rumpled dark blue suit . . . I took to him at once.’ Lowell was equally taken by Bishop, and thought she had ‘more to offer, I think, than anyone writing poems in English’. The candid, affectionate, constrained and loving friendship of the two American poets is recorded in letters written over three decades. It begins after the publicatio…