{"product_id":"selected-poems-of-malcolm-lowry-city-lights-pocket-poets-number-17-paperback","title":"Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry: City Lights Pocket Poets Number 17 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMalcolm Lowry\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eEarle Alfred Birney\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLawrence Ferlinghetti\u003c\/b\u003e (Preface by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhile famous for his celebrated novel, \u003ci\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e, Malcolm Lowry always considered himself a poet. First published in 1962 and long out of print, \u003ci\u003eSelected Poems of Malcolm Lowry \u003c\/i\u003eis the only comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published, and it remains the perfect introduction to his extensive poetic canon. Edited by Lowry's good friend, renowned Canadian poet Earle Birney, with the assistance of his widow, Margerie Lowry, the selection includes extraordinary poems written during Lowry's stay in Mexico, many of which are closely related to his novel. This new edition includes a \"Publisher's Note\" from Lawrence Ferlinghetti.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These poems would be worth keeping in print, if for no other reason, for their illuminations of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e: 'See mind's petal \/ torn from a good tree, but where shall it settle \/ But in the last darkness and at the end?' Sometimes, as the images of \"For Under the Volcano,\" they become 'palm-of-the-hand' versions of that masterpiece. Lowry is a poet of struggle--with life, and with the creative process. Here are his struggle's fruits: guilt, alcoholism, hopeless, self-deriding quest for salvation, which seems to be love, and, above all, self-destruction--but always accomplished with self-knowledge, enriched (in order to further torment itself) with compassion for all the beings that the poet, and us with him, are failing. His words are always sad and often beautiful.\"--\u003cb\u003eWilliam T. Vollmann\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMalcolm Lowry (1909-1957) was a British novelist and poet whose masterpiece \u003ci\u003eUnder the Volcano\u003c\/i\u003e is widely hailed as one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Born near Liverpool, England, Lowry grew up in a prominent, wealthy family and chafed under the expectations placed upon him by parents and boarding school. He wrote passionately on the themes of exile and despair, and his own wanderlust and erratic lifestyle made him an icon to later generations of writers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEarle Birney (1904-1995) was a distinguished Canadian poet novelist, who twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary honor, for his poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 6.3 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 28, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51758111949088,"sku":"9780872867291","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/6466c62ff75968132c4ef2d8d062e90a.webp?v=1780118333","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/selected-poems-of-malcolm-lowry-city-lights-pocket-poets-number-17-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}