The Price
Dan Jacobson: The concluding part of Dan Jacobson’s interview with Ian Hamilton, 21 February 2002
“... he trample all over the distinctions, the reticences and borderlines, you set so much store by in your own verse?Yes. I suppose that is where the whole idea of confessional poetry came from. There are two factors with Lowell: one is that his family is a famous one, he had a famous name. So to have a Lowell write derisively about his father as Lowell the ... ”