The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding
member of the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D.,
excelled as the impresario for the "new poetry" that became news
across the U. S. in the years after World War I. Maligned by T. S.
Eliot as the "demon saleswoman" of poetry, and ridiculed by Ezra
Pound, Lowell has been treated by previous biographers as an obese,
sex-starved, inferior poet who smoked cigars and made a spectacle
of herself, canvassing the country on lecture tours that drew
crowds in the hundreds for her electrifying performances. In fact,
Lowell wrote some of the finest love lyrics of the 20th century and
led a full and loving life with her constant companion, the retired
actress Ada Russell. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize
posthumously in 1926. This provocative new biography, the first in
forty years, restores Amy Lowell to her full humanity in an era
that, at last, is beginning to appreciate the contributions of gays
and lesbians to American's cultural heritage. Drawing on newly
discovered letters and papers, Rollyson's biography finally gives
this vibrant poet her due.
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