num_pages: 251
description: 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 movein the low creekbed, the marshlandsdown the valley, spreading across the openhayfields, the hedgerows with their topsstill lit, laps the roadbed, flows overlawns and gardens, past the house and upthe wooded hillside back behind ustill only some few rays still scythebetween the treetrunks from the far horizonand are gone. W. D. Snodgrass , born in Pennsylvania in 1926, is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including The Fuehrer 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 Essays on Poetr y (BOA, 2002), Autobiographical Sketches (BOA, 1999) and six volumes of translation, including Selected Translations (BOA Editions, 1998), which won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.
language: English
title: Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems
titlecomplete: Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum)
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 36
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Poetry
publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.