Honor Moore, editor for poet Amy Lowell, discusses the impact of Lowell's work. A cigar-smoking proponent of free-verse modernism in open rebellion against her distinguished Boston lineage, Amy Lowell cut an indelible public figure. But in the words of Moore, "what strikes the modern reader is not the sophistication of Lowell's feminist or anti-war stances, but the bald audacity of her eroticism." Lowell was at the center of a group of pioneering modernists who, in an era convulsed by change, rejected musty Victorian standards and wrote poems of bracing immediacy. This new selection captures her formal range: the "cadenced verse" of her Imagist masterpieces, her experiments in "polyphonic prose," her narrative poetry, and her adaptations from the classical Chinese. It gives a fresh sense of the passion and energy of her work. **Honor Moore** is the author of *The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter*, a *New York Times* Notable Book in 1996, and of three volumes of poems: *Memoir*, *Darling*, and *Red Shoes*. Her work has appeared in *The New Yorker*, *The NewYork Times*, *The Nation*, *The New Republic*, *The Paris Review*, and *The American Scholar*.
