Lowell’s Life Writing in Prose and Poetry

Steven Gould Axelrod is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He serves as Associate Editor of Bishop-Lowell Studies, and is President of the Robert Lowell Society. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Life and Art (1978), Sylvia Plath: The Wound and the Cure of Words (1990), and over 80 scholarly articles. He has edited or coedited books on Lowell, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams. He is coeditor of the Rutgers University Press New Anthology of American Poetry, volumes 1–3 (2003, 2005, 2012). He is also coeditor of Robert Lowell’s Memoirs (2022) and, with Craig Svonkin, of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry (2023). He is currently finishing a book on Cold War poetics.

Grzegorz Kosc is Associate Professor of English and the Director of the American Studies Center at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of Robert Lowell: Uncomfortable Epigone of the Grands Maîtres (2005) and Robert Frost’s Political Body (2014). He has coedited The Transatlantic Sixties: Europe and the United States in the Counterculture Decade (2013). He has articles in journals such as the Wallace Stevens Journal, Papers on Language and Literature, Partial Answers, and College Literature. Most recently, he has coedited, with Steven Gould Axelrod, Robert Lowell’s Memoirs published in 2022 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.