W. D. Snodgrass, Author . BOA $27.95 (251p) ISBN 978-1-929918-77-5
Snodgrass made his splash with Heart's Needle
(1959), a careful sequence of rhymed poems about his marital troubles and his daughter: the volume helped create so-called "confessional poetry" and won a Pulitzer Prize. Snodgrass gave his...
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W. D. Snodgrass, Author BOA Editions $25 (140p) ISBN 978-0-918526-98-4
Snodgrass, whose first collection, Heart's Needle , won a Pulitzer Prize in 1960, is a formalist; only on those occasions when his subject matter is strong enough does his writing break through formal constraints. This new collection is almost...
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W. D. Snodgrass, Author BOA Editions $18 (243p) ISBN 978-1-929918-18-8
Showing how one can work from ""Pulse and Impulse,"" ""Shapes Merging and Emerging"" and even ""Against Your Beliefs,"" poet W.D. Snodgrass offers a series of well-tempered how-tos in To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry. Snodgrass, whose...
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W. D. Snodgrass, Author Soho Press $15.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-939149-61-2
Some poems previously available only in small press editions are included here. ``Snodgrass's reputation has dimmed in recent years,'' said PW ; although The Fuehrer Bunker provides a ``chilling reminder of the psychopathology of culture,'' some...
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W. D. Snodgrass, Author, Donald Hall, Introduction by Graywolf Press $16 (285p) ISBN 978-1-55597-317-9
Neither Yeats nor Stevens, Dickinson, Auden or Shakespeare escapes Pulitzer-winner W.D. Snodgrass's often droll, (intentionally) paltry rewriting in De/Compositions: 101 Good Poems Gone Bad. In the classroom, Snodgrass (Heart's Needle) deploys...
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