Thanks for the detailed description of Snodgrass's reading, Jennifer--now I feel as if I'd been there! I wonder, though, did he read any of his Heart's Needle poems, or are they too distant in time and feeling from his current sensibility? They just never lose their freshness for me. I heard him read once at Tulane U. in New Orleans, maybe fifteen years ago, and it was all newer stuff--children's verse and the Fuhrer Bunker poems (yes, so painful to experience as a listener--I wondered, at the time, how a a writer could withstand the emotional and spiritual toll of projecting himself into the psyches of Hitler and his circle; and I still wonder).
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