While famous for his celebrated novel, Under the Volcano, Malcolm
Lowry always considered himself a poet. First published in 1962 and
long out of print, Selected Poems of Malcolm Lowry is the only
comprehensive selection of his poetry to be published, and it
remains the perfect introduction to his extensive poetic canon.
Edited by Lowry's good friend, renowned Canadian poet Earle Birney,
with the assistance of his widow, Margerie Lowry, the selection
includes extraordinary poems written during Lowry's stay in Mexico,
many of which are closely related to his novel. This new edition
includes a "Publisher's Note" from Lawrence Ferlinghetti. "These
poems would be worth keeping in print, if for no other reason, for
their illuminations of Under the Volcano: 'See mind's petal / torn
from a good tree, but where shall it settle / But in the last
darkness and at the end?' Sometimes, as the images of "For Under
the Volcano," they become 'palm-of-the-hand' versions of that
masterpiece. Lowry is a poet of struggle--with life, and with the
creative process. Here are his struggle's fruits: guilt,
alcoholism, hopeless, self-deriding quest for salvation, which
seems to be love, and, above all, self-destruction--but always
accomplished with self-knowledge, enriched (in order to further
torment itself) with compassion for all the beings that the poet,
and us with him, are failing. His words are always sad and often
beautiful."-William T. Vollman
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