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KATHLEEN
SPIVACK
With Robert Lowell & His Circle
Northeastern University Press
Boston
SYLVIA PLATH,
ANNE SEXTON,
ELIZABETH BISHOP,
STANLEY KUNITZ,
AND OTHERS
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY PRESS
An imprint of University Press of New England
www.upne.com
2012 Kathleen Spivack
All rights reserved
For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Spivack, Kathleen.
With Robert Lowell and his circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton,
Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and others / Kathleen Spivack.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-55553-788-3 (pbk.: alk. paper)
ISBN 978-1-55553-765-4 (ebook: alk. paper)
1. Spivack, Kathleen. 2. Poets, American20th century
Biography. 3. American poetryMassachusettsBoston
History and criticism. I. Title.
PS3569.P56Z46 2012
811.54dc23
[B] 2012027775
TO PETER DRUCKER & DORIS DRUCKER,
whose talents, courage, resourcefulness, love of life,
strong opinions!, zest for ideas, hard work, originality,
gutsy spirits, gifts of surprise, fun, family, friendship,
and relationship inspired us and forever shaped our lives. Thank you.
Thank You
To the writers cited in this book, first of all: their words, their generosity, the journey, the adventure!
To modern American poetry experts: Laura Jehn Menides, Steven Gould Axelrod, Thomas Travisano, Alice Quinn, Carolyn French, and to my editor, Richard Pult.
To the Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Stanley Kunitz Societies. To Lois Ames.
To the journals and magazines that published parts of this work when it was still in progress.
To the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Ragdale, Dorset House. To Elizabeth Morse, Marilyn Rinzler.
To Kathryn Deputat, Connie Brown, Anne Hoffman, Bridget Nault, and Lisa Tandy.
In the Boston area, to Louisa Solano, Ifeanyi and Carol Menkiti, the Grolier Poetry Bookshop, The Bagel Bards.
To Elena Dodd, Marlaina Nugent, Meredeth Turshen, Kate Frank, Abigail Adler, Judith Steinbergh. Also to Tony Priano, Barbara Waldorf.
In France, to Jacques Pothier, Odile Hellier, Claire Bruyere, George and Sylvia Whitman, Dominique Masson, Laurence Fosse, Virginia Larner, Rosalie Footnick, Tama Carroll, Adrian Leeds, Patricia LaPlante Collins, David Barnes, Colin Dixon, Paul Volsik, and special thanks to Jean-Pierre Ledoux. Also to the Village Voice Bookshop and to Shakespeare and Company.
To Robert and Gail Melson, Cecilia Wolloch, Hazel Rowley, Anya Achtenberg, Diana Norma Szokolai, Barry and Lorrie Goldensohn, Paula Phipps, Nadia Stevens, Margot Berdeshevsky, Rosary ONeill, Doug Holder, Sam Cornish, Harris Gardner, Elizabeth Doran, Lee Bartell, Karen Sharpe, Ruth Hanham, Sajed and Rosie Kamal, Steve Glines, Hannelore Hahn, Phil Helfaer.
With special thanks to the writers who lived this Lowell-Bishop time, many of whom have written their own works about the experience. Thank you for generously sharing your insights through essays, personal letters, poems, and interviews: James Atlas, Judith Baumel, Frank Bidart, Caroline Blackwood, William Corbett, Jonathan Galassi, Grey Gowrie, Elizabeth Hardwick, Alice Ryerson Hayes, Fanny Howe, Donald Junkins, Robert Pinsky, Roger Rosenblatt, Stephen Sandy, Lloyd Schwartz, Anne Sexton, Richard Tillinghast, Helen Vendler, Andrei Voznesensky, Alan Williamson.
To Vincent Drucker, Cecily Drucker, Joan Drucker Winstein, Bruce Winstein. To Mayer Spivack, Nova Spivack, Marin Spivack, who unify this narrative.
To Joseph Murray, creator of beauty and peace. Thank you for believing in and encouraging this project.
I might have called this book Labor of Love. For that is what it has been: a labor of love. I first started to write down some of my memories about Robert Lowell and his circle during a period when my oldest child, then fourteen years old, was in a childrens hospital.
There was a preliminary list of topics I wanted to write about, episodic and sometimes simultaneous, like memory itself. I wrote in the brief interludes that were available to me at that time: in the hospital family waiting areas where, afraid and alone, I passed the days and nights. Whenever I had a moment, I scribbled down memories of happier days.
I had been with Robert Lowell since 1959. My long-term intimate friendship with Robert Lowell and other poets of his time, those happy totally absorbing hours, seemed the furthest thing that I could think of from what I was living then. I had been privileged to be a witness to deeply committed poets and to how they approached their work. Trying to remember as much as I could, I realized I had to choose to write about only what I knew, what I had actually observed and lived with the writers. Much has been written about the poets. But I had occupied a unique vantage point. In my mind, I took the photographs.
Later, putting together this book, or rather, trying to choose what was most important, made me smile, especially when I thought of what I was leaving out! I worked on the book for years. An urgency drove me, kept me working, writing, revising. I wanted to give the flavor of the times, the experience, put it down exactly as I had seen it: before I died and history and memory died with me. The project found me: insisted. It would not let me go.
I am older now than were the poets in this book and have had plenty of time to reflect on my experiences and what they meant. Meanwhile, the young poets who lived with me in the book and the times went on to realize their early promise. Subsequent scholarly and revelatory work that has come out continues to inform our understanding.
Often, as I was writing and revising this book about Robert Lowell and the poets around him, I felt impatient. It was taking so much time. I wanted to get back to what I thought of as my real work: my own creative writing. Then I realized that this book had become a part of my real work: living, loving, writing it down and trying to make sense of it all.
In January 1959 I came to Boston on an undergraduate fellowship to study with poet Robert Lowell as an alternative to my senior year at college. That single act changed my life. I worked with Robert Lowell both privately, in tutorial at his house on Marlborough Street, and in a class with others who were in the first bloom of their careers. As my poems and friendships with these poets set their roots, I continued to work with and to be associated with him until his death in 1977. At the time of this writing, I am one of the very few writers still around from that period.
He gave me formal letters of introduction to Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Adrienne Rich, and other older women poets of the time. He introduced me to Bill Alfred and Stanley Kunitz, as well as to the British poets Jonathan Griffin and Basil Bunting. These became deep poetic friendships. I met Elizabeth Bishop through him.
He asked me to come to his house on Marlborough Street two or three times a week, during which occasions he would read poems aloud to me, and we I would not have dared say a word would discuss them. Afterwards there were long teatimes at the Lowells house. Lowell became in loco parentis for me in many ways. I spent a lot of time there and also used the Lowells home as my fake mailing address when I was living with my boyfriend, whom I later married. Lowell was my friend and champion in all this, took me and my husband under his wing, and went to see my parents, who opposed the marriage. We developed a lifelong friendship.
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