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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
To the Reader
Introduction
The “Family”
Oberlin and Boston, 1958–1959
Early Days in Boston
First Meeting with Robert Lowell
First Classes at Boston University, 1959–1960
Sylvia Plath, 1959–1960
Robert Lowell’s Appearance
Lowell’s Way of Teaching
Anne Sexton, 1959–1974
Later Visits with Anne Sexton
Teatime with Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick
Literary Boston in the Late ’50s and ’60s
Significant Other, 1959–1977
Adrienne Rich, 1960s
The Two Sets of Classes
Elizabeth Bishop and Ping-Pong, 1974–1979
Boston and Its Influence
Lowell’s Poet Friends
Stanley Kunitz, 1971–2006
Lowell and Women
Young Marriage in Somerville
He Was Ancient! He Was Over Forty!
The Underside
Alcohol and Drugs
Gender and Suicide
A Gifted Young Student
The “Po Biz”
“Genius at Work”
Allen Ginsberg and Robert Lowell
The “Romantics” Seminar, Harvard University, Spring 1977
Final Spring, 1977
Looking for Robert Lowell’s Grave, October 1977
Notes of a Witness
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Credits
About the Author
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