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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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0307700275
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9780307700278
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Book Title
Robert Lowell, Setting the River on Fire : a Study of Genius, Mania, and Character
Number of Pages
416 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
Creative Ability, Psychopathology / Depression, Psychopathology / General, Poetry, Literary, Psychopathology / Bipolar Disorder
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Yes
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Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, Psychology
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Kay Redfield Jamison
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"Kay Jamison brings together meticulous research into the factual narrative of Lowell''s life, an immensely sophisticated ability to interpret his poetry, and a profound understanding of his mental illness and its effect on everything else about him. Written in prose that is often poetic and always acute, it is a poignant, terrifying, and thrilling examination of the complex relationship between genius and madness. It captures Lowell''s electrifying charm, his persistent elegance of thought, and the consuming chaos of his despair. It is one of the finest biographies I have read." --Andrew Solomon "Robert Lowell was a constantly searching, restlessly inventive artist who courageously wrestled with bipolar illness all his life. Kay Jamison''s deeply considered, deeply empathetic reading of Lowell''s life and work gives us a revolutionary, richly nuanced way of understanding both a major writer''s career and the sources and processes of creativity itself. We needed this book." --Jonathan Galassi "Intellectually thrilling . . . Achieves a magnificence and intensity that sets it apart . . . Above all, the book demands that readers seriously engage with its arguments, while also prodding them to reexamine their own beliefs about art, madness, and moral responsibility." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "The best book so far about one of our most polarizing contemporary literary figures." --Craig Teicher, Los Angeles Times "Jamison''s understanding of literature is also ''fast, compound, legendary''; she draws from a vast knowledge while disclosing this larger than life poet who was loved, hated, and because of brain chemistry, often misunderstood. In addition to the luminaries quoted, her account is enhanced by memories offered by his daughter Harriet Lowell, and the inclusion of previously unreleased medical records that chart his, and his many relatives'', experience with mental illness." --Valerie Duff, The Boston Globe "A remarkable look into the life and mind of a genius" --Matt McCarthy, USA Today "A landmark analysis of the disease that molded a brilliant man, and an immensely moving book . . . [Robert Lowell] is the perfect subject for Jamison''s superb examination of manic depression and its influence, for good and ill, on creativity." --Mary Ann Gwinn, Booklist "Jamison has constructed a novel and rewarding way to view Lowell''s life and output." -- Publishers Weekly   "An intimate, sensitive, and perceptive account of the illness from which poet Robert Lowell suffered most of his life." -- Kirkus Reviews "Finally, a book commensurate to the immensity that was Robert Lowell. This is the soul that fires the poetry and prose, the soul that his friends fell in love with. I''m happy that I''ve lived long enough to read it." --Frank Bidart   "A dazzling combination: the brilliant Robert Lowell read by the brilliant Kay Jamison, who writes a book for the ages: poignant, ambitious, and big-hearted, about friendship, history, and the mad dance of mind that Lowell faced with supreme courage, all the while producing some of the most haunting lyrics of the twentieth century. Jamison on Lowell: read it to learn, with humility, how to live." --Brenda Wineapple   "Reading Setting the River on Fire , I felt I was keeping company with the man I knew, yet seeing him bathed in so many new lights that I realized how little I had actually known him. In this astonishingly multidimensional portrait of Robert Lowell, Jamison makes him live and breathe, and restores to him the grandeur he deserves. We can see her in him and him in her and, in the best sense, Setting the River on Fire turns out to be an exhilarating vicarious biography--something so rare as to be perhaps unique, a biographer fully inhabiting the life of her subject in a way that seems to the reader a life at once seen from a wise distance and felt intimately at first-hand. --Jonathan Raban, "Kay Jamison brings together meticulous research into the factual narrative of Lowell's life, an immensely sophisticated ability to interpret his poetry, and a profound understanding of his mental illness and its effect on everything else about him. Written in prose that is often poetic and always acute, it is a poignant, terrifying, and thrilling examination of the complex relationship between genius and madness. It captures Lowell's electrifying charm, his persistent elegance of thought, and the consuming chaos of his despair. It is one of the finest biographies I have read." --Andrew Solomon "Robert Lowell was a constantly searching, restlessly inventive artist who courageously wrestled with bipolar illness all his life. Kay Jamison's deeply considered, deeply empathetic reading of Lowell's life and work gives us a revolutionary, richly nuanced way of understanding both a major writer's career and the sources and processes of creativity itself. We needed this book." --Jonathan Galassi "Intellectually thrilling . . . Achieves a magnificence and intensity that sets it apart . . . Above all, the book demands that readers seriously engage with its arguments, while also prodding them to reexamine their own beliefs about art, madness, and moral responsibility." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Jamison's understanding of literature is also 'fast, compound, legendary'; she draws from a vast knowledge while disclosing this larger than life poet who was loved, hated, and because of brain chemistry, often misunderstood. In addition to the luminaries quoted, her account is enhanced by memories offered by his daughter Harriet Lowell, and the inclusion of previously unreleased medical records that chart his, and his many relatives', experience with mental illness." --Valerie Duff, The Boston Globe "Jamison has constructed a novel and rewarding way to view Lowell's life and output." -- Publishers Weekly   "An intimate, sensitive, and perceptive account of the illness from which poet Robert Lowell suffered most of his life." -- Kirkus Reviews "Finally, a book commensurate to the immensity that was Robert Lowell. This is the soul that fires the poetry and prose, the soul that his friends fell in love with. I'm happy that I've lived long enough to read it." --Frank Bidart   "A dazzling combination: the brilliant Robert Lowell read by the brilliant Kay Jamison, who writes a book for the ages: poignant, ambitious, and big-hearted, about friendship, history, and the mad dance of mind that Lowell faced with supreme courage, all the while producing some of the most haunting lyrics of the twentieth century. Jamison on Lowell: read it to learn, with humility, how to live." --Brenda Wineapple   "Reading Setting the River on Fire , I felt I was keeping company with the man I knew, yet seeing him bathed in so many new lights that I realized how little I had actually known him. In this astonishingly multidimensional portrait of Robert Lowell, Jamison makes him live and breathe, and restores to him the grandeur he deserves. We can see her in him and him in her and, in the best sense, Setting the River on Fire turns out to be an exhilarating vicarious biography--something so rare as to be perhaps unique, a biographer fully inhabiting the life of her subject in a way that seems to the reader a life at once seen from a wise distance and felt intimately at first-hand. --Jonathan Raban, "Kay Jamison brings together meticulous research into the factual narrative of Lowell's life, an immensely sophisticated ability to interpret his poetry, and a profound understanding of his mental illness and its effect on everything else about him. Written in prose that is often poetic and always acute, it is a poignant, terrifying, and thrilling examination of the complex relationship between genius and madness. It captures Lowell's electrifying charm, his persistent elegance of thought, and the consuming chaos of his despair. It is one of the finest biographies I have read." -- Andrew Solomon "Jamison has constructed a novel and rewarding way to view Lowell's life and output." -- Publishers Weekly   "An intimate, sensitive, and perceptive account of the illness from which poet Robert Lowell suffered most of his life." -- Kirkus Reviews "Finally, a book commensurate to the immensity that was Robert Lowell. This is the soul that fires the poetry and prose, the soul that his friends fell in love with. I'm happy that I've lived long enough to read it." -- Frank Bidart   "Robert Lowell was a constantly searching, restlessly inventive artist who courageously wrestled with bipolar illness all his life. Kay Jamison's deeply considered, deeply empathetic reading of Lowell's life and work gives us a revolutionary, richly nuanced way of understanding both a major writer's career and the sources and processes of creativity itself. We needed this book." -- Jonathan Galassi   "A dazzling combination: the brilliant Robert Lowell read by the brilliant Kay Jamison, who writes a book for the ages: poignant, ambitious, and big-hearted, about friendship, history, and the mad dance of mind that Lowell faced with supreme courage, all the while producing some of the most haunting lyrics of the twentieth century. Jamison on Lowell: read it to learn, with humility, how to live." -- Brenda Wineapple   "Reading Setting the River on Fire , I felt I was keeping company with the man I knew, yet seeing him bathed in so many new lights that I realized how little I had actually known him. In this astonishingly multidimensional portrait of Robert Lowell, Jamison makes him live and breathe, and restores to him the grandeur he deserves. We can see her in him and him in her and, in the best sense, Setting the River on Fire turns out to be an exhilarating vicarious biography--something so rare as to be perhaps unique, a biographer fully inhabiting the life of her subject in a way that seems to the reader a life at once seen from a wise distance and felt intimately at first-hand. -- Jonathan Raban, "Finally, a book commensurate to the immensity that was Robert Lowell. This is the soul that fires the poetry and prose, the soul that his friends fell in love with. I'm happy that I've lived long enough to read it." --Frank Bidart   "Robert Lowell was a constantly searching, restlessly inventive artist who courageously wrestled with bipolar illness all his life. Kay Jamison's deeply considered, deeply empathetic reading of Lowell's life and work gives us a revolutionary, richly nuanced way of understanding both a major writer's career and the sources and processes of creativity itself. We needed this book." --Jonathan Galassi   "A dazzling combination: the brilliant Robert Lowell read by the brilliant Kay Jamison, who writes a book for the ages: poignant, ambitious, and big-hearted, about friendship, history, and the mad dance of mind that Lowell faced with supreme courage, all the while producing some of the most haunting lyrics of the twentieth century. Jamison on Lowell: read it to learn, with humility, how to live." --Brenda Wineapple   "Reading Setting the River on Fire , I felt I was keeping company with the man I knew, yet seeing him bathed in so many new lights that I realized how little I had actually known him. In this astonishingly multidimensional portrait of Robert Lowell, Jamison makes him live and breathe, and restores to him the grandeur he deserves. We can see her in him and him in her and, in the best sense, Setting the River on Fire turns out to be an exhilarating vicarious biography--something so rare as to be perhaps unique, a biographer fully inhabiting the life of her subject in a way that seems to the reader a life at once seen from a wise distance and felt intimately at first-hand. --Jonathan Raban   "Kay Jamison brings together meticulous research into the factual narrative of Lowell's life, an immensely sophisticated ability to interpret his poetry, and a profound understanding of his mental illness and its effect on everything else about him. Written in prose that is often poetic and always acute, it is a poignant, terrifying, and thrilling examination of the complex relationship between genius and madness. It captures Lowell's electrifying charm, his persistent elegance of thought, and the consuming chaos of his despair. It is one of the finest biographies I have read." --Andrew Solomon, "Kay Jamison brings together meticulous research into the factual narrative of Lowell's life, an immensely sophisticated ability to interpret his poetry, and a profound understanding of his mental illness and its effect on everything else about him. Written in prose that is often poetic and always acute, it is a poignant, terrifying, and thrilling examination of the complex relationship between genius and madness. It captures Lowell's electrifying charm, his persistent elegance of thought, and the consuming chaos of his despair. It is one of the finest biographies I have read." --Andrew Solomon "Robert Lowell was a constantly searching, restlessly inventive artist who courageously wrestled with bipolar illness all his life. Kay Jamison's deeply considered, deeply empathetic reading of Lowell's life and work gives us a revolutionary, richly nuanced way of understanding both a major writer's career and the sources and processes of creativity itself. We needed this book." --Jonathan Galassi "Intellectually thrilling . . . Achieves a magnificence and intensity that sets it apart . . . Above all, the book demands that readers seriously engage with its arguments, while also prodding them to reexamine their own beliefs about art, madness, and moral responsibility." --Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "Jamison's understanding of literature is also 'fast, compound, legendary'; she draws from a vast knowledge while disclosing this larger than life poet who was loved, hated, and because of brain chemistry, often misunderstood. In addition to the luminaries quoted, her account is enhanced by memories offered by his daughter Harriet Lowell, and the inclusion of previously unreleased medical records that chart his, and his many relatives', experience with mental illness." --Valerie Duff, The Boston Globe "A remarkable look into the life and mind of a genius" --Matt McCarthy, USA Today "A landmark analysis of the disease that molded a brilliant man, and an immensely moving book . . . [Robert Lowell] is the perfect subject for Jamison's superb examination of manic depression and its influence, for good and ill, on creativity." --Mary Ann Gwinn, Booklist "Jamison has constructed a novel and rewarding way to view Lowell's life and output." -- Publishers Weekly   "An intimate, sensitive, and perceptive account of the illness from which poet Robert Lowell suffered most of his life." -- Kirkus Reviews "Finally, a book commensurate to the immensity that was Robert Lowell. This is the soul that fires the poetry and prose, the soul that his friends fell in love with. I'm happy that I've lived long enough to read it." --Frank Bidart   "A dazzling combination: the brilliant Robert Lowell read by the brilliant Kay Jamison, who writes a book for the ages: poignant, ambitious, and big-hearted, about friendship, history, and the mad dance of mind that Lowell faced with supreme courage, all the while producing some of the most haunting lyrics of the twentieth century. Jamison on Lowell: read it to learn, with humility, how to live." --Brenda Wineapple   "Reading Setting the River on Fire , I felt I was keeping company with the man I knew, yet seeing him bathed in so many new lights that I realized how little I had actually known him. In this astonishingly multidimensional portrait of Robert Lowell, Jamison makes him live and breathe, and restores to him the grandeur he deserves. We can see her in him and him in her and, in the best sense, Setting the River on Fire turns out to be an exhilarating vicarious biography--something so rare as to be perhaps unique, a biographer fully inhabiting the life of her subject in a way that seems to the reader a life at once seen from a wise distance and felt intimately at first-hand. --Jonathan Raban
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616.89/50092 B
Synopsis
In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison, brings an entirely fresh understanding to the work and life of Robert Lowell (1917-1977), whose intense, complex, and personal verse left a lasting mark on the English language and changed the public discourse about private matters. In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, creating a language for madness that was new and arresting. As Dr. Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell's story, she illuminates not only the relationships among mania, depression, and creativity but also the details of Lowell's treatment and how illness and treatment influenced the great work that he produced (and often became its subject). Lowell's New England roots, early breakdowns, marriages to three eminent writers, friendships with other poets such as Elizabeth Bishop, his many hospitalizations, his vivid presence as both a teacher and a maker of poems--Jamison gives us the poet's life through a lens that focuses our understanding of his intense discipline, courage, and commitment to his art. Jamison had unprecedented access to Lowell's medical records, as well as to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of poems, and she is the first biographer to have spoken with his daughter, Harriet Lowell. With this new material and a psychologist's deep insight, Jamison delivers a bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was--both despite and because of mental illness--a passionate, original observer of the human condition., In his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry, Robert Lowell (1917-1977) put his manic-depressive illness into the public domain. Now Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise to bear on his story, illuminating the relationship between bipolar illness and creativity, and examining how Lowell's illness and the treatment he received came to bear on his work. His New England roots, early breakdowns, marriages to three eminent writers, friendships with other poets, vivid presence as a teacher and writer refusing to give up in the face of mental illness-Jamison gives us Lowell's life through a lens that focuses our understanding of the poet's intense discipline, courage, and commitment to his art. Jamison had unprecedented access to Lowell's medical records, as well as to previously unpublished drafts and fragments of poems, and was the first biographer to speak to his daughter. With this new material and a psychologist's deep insight, Jamison delivers a bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was-both despite and because of mental illness-a passionate, original observer of the human condition.
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RC537.J356 2017

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