After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches: Autobiographical Sketches - Snodgrass, W. D.
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In After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches, W.D. Snodgrass offers us his first collected autobiographical prose. A renowned poet and contemporary of Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman, Snodgrass takes us from his beginnings in a Pennsylvania milltown, his first loves, music lessons and marriages -- which provided the genesis of his early poems -- to his World War II Navy hitch, literary friendships, and personal battles. Finally, the book brings us back full circle, concluding with a sort of double homecoming: a visit by Snodgrass to his hometown, now in severe economic decline,…mehr

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In After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches, W.D. Snodgrass offers us his first collected autobiographical prose. A renowned poet and contemporary of Robert Lowell, Randall Jarrell, and John Berryman, Snodgrass takes us from his beginnings in a Pennsylvania milltown, his first loves, music lessons and marriages -- which provided the genesis of his early poems -- to his World War II Navy hitch, literary friendships, and personal battles. Finally, the book brings us back full circle, concluding with a sort of double homecoming: a visit by Snodgrass to his hometown, now in severe economic decline, and a rediscovery of his love of music. "Iron and steel work surrounded our city, Beaver Falls; walking the dog at night, you were horizoned by the distant clang and clatter of mills and foundries. We never heard this, though, unless there was a strike and it stopped."
Autorenporträt
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.