Part. The minute is now. In "After Enjoying Six or Seven Essays on Me," a 1977 Salmagundi essay, Lowell wrote that "looking about my Selected Poems, about 30 decades of composing, my impact is that the thread that strings it jointly is my autobiography." His poetry and "91 Revere Street," the prose sketch that varieties an critical part of Life Studies, give glimpse following glimpse into the globe of his childhood.