The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,. This item is unavailable.The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,

A poet and publisher draws on vivid personal reminiscences to describe the mid-1950s renaissance of American poetry that took place in and around Boston, sharing portraits of Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Richard Wilbur, and others. 10,000 first printing.

Peter Davison has hart a long and distinguished career as a poet and as a book publisher. He was born in New York and raised in Colorado, and attended Harvard and Cambridge universities. He became an editor in book publishing at twenty-two; from 1956 to 1985 he edited books for the Atlantic Monthly Press and now does so for his own imprint at Houghton Mifflin Company. He is poetry editor for The Atlantic Monthly. His first book of poems won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award in 1963, and since then he has published eight additional volumes, including The Great Ledge (1989). He lives in Boston and is married to the architect Joan Edelman Goody.