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The controversial American poet Amy Lowell (1874-1925), a founding person in the Imagist group that included D. H. Lawrence and H. D., excelled as the impresario for the "new poetry" that became reports across the U. S. in the years after World Conflict I. Maligned by T. S. Eliot as the "demon saleswoman" of poetry, and ridiculed by Ezra Pound, Lowell has been treated by earlier biographers as an obese, sex-starved, inferior poet who smoked cigars and made a spectacle of herself, canvassing the country on lecture trips that drew crowds in the hundreds on her behalf electrifying performances. Actually, Lowell wrote a few of the finest love lyrics of the 20th hundred years and led a full and caring life with her regular companion, the retired celebrity Ada Russell. She was awarded the Pulitzer Reward posthumously in 1926. This provocative new biography, the first in 40 years, restores Amy Lowell to her full humanity in an period that, at last, is starting to appreciate the contributions of gays and lesbians to American's cultural heritage. Pulling on newly discovered letters and papers, Rollyson's biography finally gives this exciting poet her scheduled.
