{"product_id":"not-for-specialists-new-and-selected-poems-american-poets-continuum-9781929918768","title":"Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNot for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum)\u003c\/strong\u003e by Snodgrass, W.D.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781929918768.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUntil 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 five other distinguished collections.\nfrom “Nocturnes”\nSeen from higher up, it makes its first move\nin the low creekbed, the marshlands\ndown the valley, spreading across the open\nhayfields, the hedgerows with their tops\nstill lit, laps the roadbed, flows over\nlawns and gardens, past the house and up\nthe wooded hillside back behind us\ntill only some few rays still scythe\nbetween the treetrunks from the far horizon\nand are gone.\nW. D. Snodgrass, born in Pennsylvania in 1926, is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (BOA, 1995); Each in His Season (BOA, 1993); and Hearts Needle (1959), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other books include To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (BOA, 2002), After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches (BOA, 1999) and six volumes of translation, including Selected Translations (BOA Editions, 1998), which won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44989889708085,"sku":"ByrdShop_1929918763","price":229.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781929918768_88f38a52-3f9b-4f83-a443-ab6ea4edb376.jpg?v=1778895111","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/not-for-specialists-new-and-selected-poems-american-poets-continuum-9781929918768","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}