| After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches: Autobiographical Sketches Contributor(s): Snodgrass, W. D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1880238764 ISBN-13: 9781880238769 Publisher: BOA Editions OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 1999 Annotation: 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." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Poetry | American - General - Social Science | Essays |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 98-76204 |
| Series: American Reader (Paperback) |
| Physical Information: 1.23" H x 6.61" W x 9" (0.68 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Blends Russell Baker's Growing Up and Roethke's The Poet and His Craft with Snodgrass's unique spice. |