Its new title: “like a dolphin.” A 1992 poem Bukowski originally entitled “stone tiger, frozen sea,” was completely reworked with just two lines left unchanged. Its new title ...

In The Dolphin (1973), his penultimate volume of poems, Lowell relates, in a series of sonnets, his affair with and eventual marriage to Blackwood, by whom, as the titular Dolphin, the poet was ...

The Dolphin possesses an equivocal legacy. It is perhaps the most infamous book in modern American poetry. Lowell’s great transgression was one of unchecked license, the siphoning of Hardwick ...

Breaking up with his wife and moving on to another love, Lowell paraphrased quotes from Hardwick’s heartbroken letters to make his next poems. At the least, the scandal around “The Dolphin ...

“Art just isn’t worth that much,” Bishop wrote, in uncharacteristic italics, after reading drafts of the poems. But “The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), edited by ...

“The Dolphin Letters, 1970-1979” brings to life ... “I am not mad and hold to you with reason,” Lowell wrote to her in a poem. He intended to stay in England and marry her.