Life Studies

E-101: Farrar, Straus & Cuhady. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, New York. 1959. 90 pgs. Signed by Robert Lowell on the FFEP. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has light shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. Previous owner's name present underneath the author's signature on the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. In Life Studies, which was first published in 1959, Lowell moved away from the formality of his earlier poems and started writing in a more confessional vein. 'In Life Studies the pathos of the local colour of the past - of the lives and deaths of his father and mother and grandfather and uncle, crammed full of their own varied and placid absurdity - is the background that sets off the desperate knife-edged absurdity of the jailed conscientious objector among gangsters and Jehovah's witnesses, the private citizen returning to his baby, older now, from the mental hospital. He sees things as being part of history; if you say about his poor detailedly eccentric, trust-fund Lowells: 'but they weren't,' he can answer: 'They are now.' ' Randall Jarrell EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author .