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Monday 13th February

Words In Air By Thomas J. Travisano, Saskia Hamilton

Posted at 11:32AM Tuesday 30 Dec 2008

She was 36 and he was 30. They sensed early on that they had much to offer each other. This collection of letters is a correspondence of more than 30 years, silenced only by Lowell's death in 1977.

Words in Air, sensitively edited with just the right amount of explanatory material by Thomas Travisano and Saskia Hamilton, will fascinate poets and poetry lovers alike. These two artists talk freely and in detail about their own and others' work, and the way each was influenced by the other. But these letters also have human poignancy – they give the sense of two difficult, brave, original lives lived in the service of the most pitiless, to its practitioners, of all arts. The two poets were also virtuoso letter-writers, gossipy and witty as well as acute and sometimes profound.

Financial Times Review

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