Ginsberg’s Brinkmanship

STEVEN GOULD AXELROD is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. He has served as president of PAMLA and is the founding 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 seventy-five scholarly articles. He has edited or coedited The Critical Response to Robert Lowell (1999), The New Anthology of American Poetry, Volumes 1-3 (2003-12), The Bloomsbury Handbook of Contemporary American Poetry (forthcoming), and The Memoirs of Robert Lowell (forthcoming). He is currently completing a book called Cold War Poetics.