Poets in Their Youth

Recently reissued: Eileen Simpson’s 1982 Poets in Their Youth: A Memoir (Random House), a wonderful recollection of poets John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Delmore Schwartz and others in their circle (R. P. Blackmur, Jean Stafford, and more). (On the cover: a young Berryman, Stafford, and Lowell in Damariscotta Mills ME.) The occasion of the reissue … Continue reading Poets in Their Youth