Kirjahaku

Poems, letters, and snippets of folk songs bring to life the last days in Hitler's bunker

* One of country's most widely published and anthologized poets, this is Snodgrass's first collection of autobiographical prose. No competing titles. * Snodgrass's first book of poems Heart's Needle won the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. The Fuehrer Bunker (BOA Editions, Ltd., 1977) has sold nearly 1600 copies, and was the poets last full length volume of poetry. * Snodgrass taught most recently at U of Delaware; retired 3 years ago. * This is not a kiss and tell autobio, but reveals his connections to other poets of his age, including Robert Lowell. * Soho Press published Selected Poems, but Snodgrass is now connected/established with BOA. cf: Merwin's Unframed Originals

Since To Sound Like Yourself is the first book of essays on poetry since 1975 by the Pulitzer-winning author, this title has enormous potential to become a handbook for writing classes. Focus on poetic voice development De/Compositions was nominated for National Book Critics Circle Award

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.