BIB_ID
412104
Accession number
MA 22063.3
Creator
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
Display Date
[1965].
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 28 x 21.7 cm
Notes
Possible date of writing based on Randall Jarrell's death.
Autograph corrections in pencil by Lowell throughout; 3 lines of a stanza in pencil written at the bottom: "They follow this path, old friends, old butts of death / tonight it's Randall, the spark of fire through humble, / his gnawed wrist cradled like his kitten(underlined)."
Autograph corrections in pencil by Lowell throughout; 3 lines of a stanza in pencil written at the bottom: "They follow this path, old friends, old butts of death / tonight it's Randall, the spark of fire through humble, / his gnawed wrist cradled like his kitten(underlined)."
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Summary
Typescript of a revised version of a poem containing 10 lines in 1 stanza, with the last two lines ending, "Nothing is on fire. I am alone and awake, I see / the cigarette burning in my finger...."
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