Robert Lowell

After the planes unloaded, we fell down Buried together, unmarried men and women; Not crown of thorns, not iron, not Lombard crown, Not grilled and spindle spires pointing to heaven Could save us. Read More

Ivana Lowell's mother, the writer Caroline Blackwood, had interesting taste in men; her husbands included the poet Robert Lowell, the painter Lucian Freud, and the composer Israel Citkowitz; her lovers the editor of the New York Review of Books, Robert Silvers, and the screenwriter Ivan Moffat ("A Place in the Sun,""Giant"). Read More

What do you do when your mother is a famous heiress and your father might be Robert Lowell, Bob Silvers, or some other literary icon? Read More