Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was one of the most influential and best-known writers of her era. As a herald of the New Poetry, she saw herself and her writing as a part of a newly forged American people registering its consciousness in different tonalities, but all in a native idiom. Except for the few poems that appear in American literature anthologies, most of her work has been long out of print.

The release of Selected Poems of Amy Lowell will be a major event for readers who have not been able to find a representative sampling of work from this vigorous poet who gave voice to an erotic, thoroughly American sensibility.

Melissa Bradshaw is an assistant professor of interdisciplinary humanities at Barat College of DePaul University. Adrienne Munich is a professor of English and women's studies at SUNY-Stony Brook. She is the author of Queen Victoria's Secrets and Andromeda's Chains: Gender and Interpretation in Victorian Literature and Art and coeditor of Arms and the Woman and Remaking Queen Victoria.