Bridget Lowe
Bridget Loweis an American poet.
In an early interview, Lowe expressed her interest in and commitment to “figures who are rejected by the same social groups for which they are expected to perform.” ThePoetry Foundationelaborates “Her poetry is accordingly concerned with those who feel they are both looked at and invisible, who are exploited yet remain deeply unknown.”
Biography
[edit]Bridget Lowe was born inKansas City, Missouri.[1]She is the author of two collections of poetry withCarnegie Mellon University Press:At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinskyin 2013, followed byMy Second Workin 2020. Her work has appeared in numerous publications includingThe New Yorker,[2]Poetry,The New Republic,Parnassus,and theAmerican Poetry Review.Her work has also appeared in theBest American Poetryanthology.
Awards
[edit]While a student at Syracuse University’s MFA program, Lowe was awarded aDiscovery/Boston ReviewPrize from the 92Y.[3]In 2015, Lowe was awarded the Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award from thePoetry Society of America.[4]She is also a recipient of a fellowship to the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference and a Rona Jaffee Foundation fellowship toMacDowell.[5]
Critical reception
[edit]In an early feature on her work atGwarlingo,Michelle Aldredge noted that Lowe's poems are "lyrics and elegies from material as disparate as science, history, and pop culture. The poems... feel simultaneously contemporary and very 19th century."[6]
In theKenyon Review,Lucy Biederman wrote: "There is bravery in Lowe's focus on emotions besides love and hate, in the rigor and ruthlessness with which she describes, instead, disappointment, disgust, humiliation, and mild surprise... The poems in this book go deep, beyond the beauty and the ugliness, as T.S. Eliot instructs, to 'the boredom, and the horror, and the glory.'"[7]
Her work has also been reviewed inPublishers Weekly,[8]Green Mountains Review,[9]32 Poems,[10]andThe Collagist.[11]
Works
[edit]- At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013)
- My Second Work(Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2020)
References
[edit]- ^Kerr, Kathie (March 21, 2016)."Honors: Bridget Lowe".
- ^Lowe, Bridget."The Understudy".The New Yorker.
- ^Review, Boston (July 16, 2019)."2009 Discovery Poetry Contest Winners".Boston Review.
- ^Foundation, Poetry (December 17, 2020)."Bridget Lowe".Poetry Foundation.
- ^"Bridget Lowe - Artist".MacDowell.
- ^Aldredge, Michelle (October 20, 2013)."The Sunday Poem: Bridget Lowe's At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky".
- ^"At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky | Kenyon Review Online".The Kenyon Review.
- ^"Poetry Book Review: My Second Work by Bridget Lowe. Carnegie Mellon Univ, $15.95 trade paper (72p) ISBN 978-0-88748-654-8".PublishersWeekly.com.
- ^"Revealing the Personal in Bridget Lowe's My Second Work: A Review".May 23, 2020.
- ^"Quiet Devastation: A Review of Bridget Lowe's At the Autopsy of Vaslav Nijinsky by Christine Kitano | 32 Poems Magazine".32poems.com.
- ^"- The Collagist - The Collagist".thecollagist.com.