“The thing that really sort of blew me away, one of the reasons why we have sort of the type of poetry that we have today and the type of literature that we have today — it bloomed and was, I think, seeded in some ways by Sylvia Plath and her experience.” Lee Kravetz joins […]
The work of Robert Lowell has always been colored by his legendary bouts with mental illness. Now, Kay Renfield Jamison’s “Setting the River on Fire” looks at the intersection of poetry and madness. Essay by Troy Jollimore.