new and selected poems

Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems

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.

cover of Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poemsauthor: W. D. Snodgrass
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1904130356
binding: Paperback
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Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum)

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.

cover of Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum)author: W.D. Snodgrass
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1929918771
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Book Review of Not For Specialists: New and Selected Poems by W.D. Snodgrass

Book Review —

W.D. Snodgrass: Not For Specialists: New and Selected Poems

(Waywiser Press, 2009))
ISBN 978-1904130352

 

In “Disguised as Humpty-Dumpty, W.D. Practices Tumbling” we read:

Chris Childers

Chris Childers teaches Classics and Creative Writing and coaches squash and tennis at St. Andrew's School in Middletown, DE.

Destructive Element: New & Selected Poems

Just when you think you are in the midst of a traditional, formal poem, Turner Cassity turns satin into sting. A native of Jackson, Mississippi--like writers Eudora Welty and Richard Wright--Cassity ranges the world in subject matter, from "Berlin to Baghdad" to "Texarkana," always exposing elements that are risky to divulge and often hilarious to contemplate. In "Why Fortune Is the Empress of the World," humanity is depicted "in overcrowded lifeboats" drawing lots. In "Domestic Symphony" Cassity resolves, "Say Heaven is this treehouse we have sinned in. / Our wine is ready.

cover of Destructive Element: New & Selected Poemsauthor: Turner Cassity
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0821412221
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