Author: W.D. Snodgrass
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 1938160703
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Until the late 1970s, W. D. Snodgrass was known primarily as a confessional poet and a key player in the emergence of that mode of poetry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Snodgrass makes poetry out of the daily neuroses and everyday failures of a man—a husband, father, and teacher. This domestic suffering occurs against a backdrop of more universal suffering which Snodgrass believes is inherent in the human experience. Not for Specialists includes 35 new poems complemented by the superb work he wrote in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Heart’s Needle, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections. from “Nocturnes” Seen from higher up, it makes its first move in the low creekbed, the marshlands down the valley, spreading across the open hayfields, the hedgerows with their tops still lit, laps the roadbed, flows over lawns and gardens, past the house and up the wooded hillside back behind us till only some few rays still scythe between the treetrunks from the far horizon and are gone. W. D. Snodgrass, born in Pennsylvania in 1926, is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (BOA, 1995); Each in His Season (BOA, 1993); and Heart's Needle (1959), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other books include To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (BOA, 2002), After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches (BOA, 1999) and six volumes of translation, including Selected Translations (BOA Editions, 1998), which won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
Author: W. D. Snodgrass
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Illustrating how the poems we love could have been written differently, or even badly, the author rewrites poems by authors ranging from Elizabeth Bishop to Shakespeare, and displays the reworked version side-by-side with the original, so one can gain a better understanding of the original work's merits.
Author: Edward Byrne
Publisher: Turning Point
ISBN: 9781934999783
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Author: William De Witt Snodgrass
Publisher: New York : Harper & Row
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 124
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Author: William De Witt Snodgrass
Publisher: BOA Editions, Ltd.
ISBN: 9781880238608
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 164
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, W.D. Snodgrass's SELECTED TRANSLATIONS offers us the imaginative power and the playful wisdom of poems, folk songs, fables, street songs, drinking lyrics, ballads, and art songs gleaned from more than 500 years of Western tradition. Whether from Hungary, Scandinavia, Italy, Romania, Poland, France, or Germany, these poetic translations are sure to delight.
Author: William De Witt Snodgrass
Publisher:
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Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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Fifty years after the fall of the Nazi Third Reich and V-E Day, BOA Editions, Ltd. is proud to present W. D. Snodgrass's The Fuebrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle. These dramatic monologues are spoken by members of the German High Command - Adolf Hitler, Heinrich Himmler, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Albert Speer, Hermann Goering - their wives and mistresses, including Eva Braun and Magda Goebbels, during the last month of the European campaign of World War II, before many of them, along with their Fuehrer, committed suicide in his bunker. Dramatizing the end of the horrible psycho-drama that was Hitler's Reich, The Fuehrer Bunker shows much of the paranoia, self-indulgence, degradation and rage that consumed the German leaders. Snodgrass uses a variety of forms - villanelles, letters and sonnets, and nonceforms - triangles, inverted triangles, platoons and squads, American popular songs and a game of solitaire - which intensify the internal conflicts. Albert Speer, Hitler's chief architect and minister of armaments, for example, speaks and thinks in geometric forms, which, as Hitler's mania and Germany's losses increase, break down. Framing the monologues are the songs of Old Lady Barkeep who is both Chorus and Mistress of Ceremonies. She sings of the High Command's deceit and of the people's disillusionment with their leaders.
Author: David Lehman
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 9780684814513
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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From Simon & Schuster, in its ninth year, The Best American Poetry 1996 is universally acclaimed as the best anthology in the field. The compilation includes a diverse abundance of poems published in 1995 in more than 40 publications ranging from The New Yorker to The Paris Review to Bamboo Ridge.
Author: Richard Snodgrass
Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
ISBN: 9780887486807
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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A personal, poetic counterpoint to the work of W.D. Snodgrass. The poems of W. D. Snodgrass, based on events from his troubled family life--particularly the death of a beloved sister--directly influenced Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and changed mid-twentieth century American poetry. Now his younger brother, Richard Snodgrass, who experienced those family events as well, masterfully weaves a counterpoint of personal stories, family history, and his own photographs into his work that reminds the reader that there are many sides to any story, that every unhappy family is unhappy in its way, and--perhaps most terrible of all--that everyone has their reasons.
Author: Robert Kehew
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226429334
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 723
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Robert Kehew augments his own verse translations with those of Pound & Snodgrass, to provide a collection that captures both the poetic pyrotechnics of the original verse & the astonishing variety of troubadour voices.
Author: William De Witt Snodgrass
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Soho
ISBN:
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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"These poems reveal an important American poet's impressive array of dramatic powers. This selection includes the best poems from his Pulitzer Prize-winning Heart's Needle, After Experience, Remains, small press poems, excerpts from The Fuehrer Bunker--a series of dramatic monologues from the top members of Hitler's Third Reich--and some new poems. In the new poems, which use the gentle surrealist paintings of DeLoss McGraw as vehicles, Snodgrass returns to himself as the subject, though not in his former confessional mode"--Publisher's description (Google Books).
