Robert Lowell, Setting The River On Fire
Descriere
In this magisterial study of the relationship between illness and art, the best-selling author of An Unquiet Mind brings a fresh perspective to the life and work of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell. In his poetry, Lowell put his manic-depressive illness (now known as bipolar disorder) into the public domain, and in the process created a new and arresting language for madness. Here Dr. Kay Redfield Jamison brings her expertise in mood disorders to bear on Lowell's story, illuminating not only the relationships between mania, depression, and creativity but also how Lowell's illness and treatment influenced his work (and often became its subject). A bold, sympathetic account of a poet who was--both despite and because of mental illness--a passionate, original observer of the human condition.
Despre autor
Kay Redfield Jamison este o psiholoagă clinică și scriitoare americană. Opera sa se concentrează pe tulburarea bipolară, pe care o are din tinerețe. Deține funcția de profesor Dalio în tulburările de dispoziție și psihiatrie la Școala de Medicină Johns Hopkins și este profesor onorific de limba engleză la Universitatea St Andrews.
