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Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems

Name: Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
Author: W. D. Snodgrass
ISBN: 9781929918775

by W. D. Snodgrass

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Synopsis

35 new poems and selections from six previous collections including the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Heart's Needle.

The New York Times - Brad Leithauser

Snodgrass published an earlier selected poems nearly 20 years ago, but this fuller edition, coinciding with his 80th birthday, clarifies as never before the range of his accomplishment.

About the Author, W. D. Snodgrass

W. D. Snodgrass is author of over twenty books of poetry, two books of literary criticism, and six volumes of translation. Honors include an Ingram Merrill Foundation award, Harold Morton Landon Translation Award, and fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, Ford Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and National Endownment for the Arts. He retired from teaching in 1994.