A Cage for Loulou

by Rudolph von Abele

A Cage for Loulou


At a glance:

  • Author: Rudolph von Abele
  • First Published: 1978
  • Type of Work: Poetry
  • Genres: Poetry

At the age of fifty-six, with a distinguished record in teaching and literary scholarship as well as two published novels (The Vigil of Emmeline Gore and The Party) behind him, Rudolph von Abele seems rather an unlikely figure to be publishing a first collection of poems. He was, after all, already a graduate student at Columbia University when Allen Ginsberg entered there as an undergraduate more than thirty years ago. The intervening years have been a particularly active and exciting period in American poetry; hosts of groups and individuals have brought...

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