Poetry

She is as in a field a silken tent
At midday when a sunny summer breeze
Has dried the dew and all its ropes relent

The road at the top of the rise
Seems to come to an end
And take off into the skies.

Physically Robert Lowell gave an impression of force, with strong shoulders and an unusually large head—not a head that revealed the skull and hinted at the brain as with his mentor Allen Tate: one, rather, that gave a powerful but awkward, elemental impression, making one think simultaneously of a bull and a creature of the sea.

Two guys tussle over Whitman, Wikipedia defeats an agent, and more.