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Preface 1. Introduction: Lowell's living name Steven Gould Axelrod; 2.Grief and nothingness: loss and mourning in Lowell's poetry Jay Martin;3. Robert Lowell: the fall from prophecy to irony Albert Gelpi; 4.Mephistophilis in Maine: rereading 'Skunk Hour' Sandra M. Gilbert; 5.Freud and the skunks: genre and language in Life Studies LawrenceKramer; 6. Poetes Maudits of the genteel tradition: Lowell and BerrymanMarjorie Perloff; 7. Notebook 1967-68: writing the process poem AlexCalder; 8. Illegible Lowell (the late volumes) Calvin Bedient; 9. Goingback, going down, breaking: Day by Day Alan Holder; 10. Lowell and thevisual arts Helen Deese; 11. Day by Day: his endgame A. KingsleyWeatherhead; 12. 'Prose or this' - what Lowell made of a diminishedthing George McFadden.