The Collected Poetry of Malcolm Lowry

by Kathleen Scherf (Editor), Kathleen Scherf (Editor), Kathleen Dorothy Scherf

Although his literary reputation rests primarily on his novels, Malcolm Lowry (1909-57) considered himself to be a poet, and he composed an extensive poetic canon. No reliable edition of Lowry's poetry currently exists. Increasing critical interest in all aspects of Lowry's life and work prompted the preparation of this complete edition of his poetry, in which the poems are located, identified, dated, arranged, collated, annotated, and explicated by biographical, critical, and textual introductions.

418 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

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[Steven Godin · Rating 3 out of 5]

I died so many times when drunk
That sober I became
Like water where a ship was sunk
That never knew its name.

Old barnacles upon my sides
Ringed round with pitch and toss
Were given me by mermaid brides,
Immacualate as moss.

Here now, with nither kin not quest,
I am so full of sea
That whales may make of me a nest
And go to sleep in me.