To Sound Like Yourself

Poetry, Nonfiction

To Sound Like Yourself

by W.D. Snodgrass

In his first collection of essays on poetry in 27 years, W. D. Snodgrass goes after that seminal quality, the poet’s individual voice, that separates the best poetry from the merely technical and pedantic. Beginning with an essay on the poetic impulse, and continuing through prosody and musicality, Snodgrass gives us an essential handbook for poets and poetry readers.

©BOA Editions, Ltd 2003

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Paperback ISBN: 1-929918-18-6
Price: $18.00
Publishing Date: January 2003

FormatPaperback

Publication DateJanuary 1, 2003

ISBN1-929918-18-6

$18.00

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About the Author

W.D. Snodgrass

About the Author

The author of nineteen collections of poetry, W.D. Snodgrass’ first collection of poems, Hearts Needle received the Pulitzer Prize in 1960. Often credited with being one of the founding members of the “confessional” school of poetry, he dismissed the term and never regarded his work as such. Snodgrass published five collections of poetry with BOA Editions: The Fuehrer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress (1977), revised edition titled The Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle: Poems (1995); Each in His Season (1993): Selected Translations (1998): After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches (1999); and Not For Specialists (2006). Snodgrass died in 2009.

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