In Coleridge’s Bed
Ange Mlinko: Dead Poets Road Trip, 20 April 2017
Deaths of the Poets
by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts.
Cape, 414 pp., £14.99, February 2017,978 0 224 09754 3 Show More
by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts.
Cape, 414 pp., £14.99, February 2017,
“... the fact that Lowell’s arms had to be broken in hospital to release the Freud painting of Caroline Blackwood (Calypso) he had been clutching when he died in a taxi between JFK and West 67th Street, where Elizabeth Hardwick (Penelope) was waiting for him. The myth that poets are aristocrats of the literary world, that their deaths are caviar for ... ”