To Sound Like Yourself - Essays on Poetry

In his first collection of essays on poetry in 27 years, W.D. Snodgrass goes after that seminal quality, the poets 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.
Responsible for the emergence of American confessional poetry, W.D. Snodgrass won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his first book, Hearts Needle. He lives with his wife, critic and translator Kathleen Snodgrass, in Erieville, New York, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Mr W.D. Snodgrass, W. D. Snodgrass, W.D. Snodgrass
• Publisher: BOA Editions, Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.11.2002
• EAN: 9781929918188
• ISBN: 978-1-929918-18-8
• No. of pages: 280
• Weight: 374 g
• Illustrations: Illustrations
• Series: American Reader (Paperback); American Reader (Paperback); American Reader Series; American Readers; American Readers Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies