Session Details

Thursday, 28 December

161. The Lives of the Poets

10:15–11:30 a.m., Grand Ballroom Salon J, Philadelphia Marriott

A special session

Presiding: Langdon Hammer, Yale Univ.

1. “A Turtle without a Shell: Artfulness and Allusion in Robert Lowell’s Letters,” Saskia Hamilton, Barnard Coll.

2. “Amy Clampitt’s Baptism by Light,” Willard L. Spiegelman, Southern Methodist Univ.

3. “James Merrill: The Biographical Container,” Langdon Hammer

4. “The Footprint in the Dust: A. R. Ammons and Elbert,” Roger Gilbert, Cornell Univ.

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