poem
Volume 33, Number 1

Robert Lowell Dies of a Bad Heart || Attack

Lowell,
confessional
poetry professor.
           Sylvia Plath & Ann Sexton,
           classmates—

they died
lonely women
unable to bounce back
from what they had learned in your class;
you too,

with your
weird depression
(bipolar disorder).
What did you teach them about life?
To quit?


—John C. Mannone