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W. D. Snodgrass

W. D. Snodgrass

BornWilliam De Witt Snodgrass
()5 January
Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States
Died13 Jan () (aged&#;83)
Erieville, New York, Common States
Pen name
  • W. D. Snodgrass
  • S. Mean. Gardons
OccupationPoet, professor
NationalityAmerican
EducationGeneva College
University of Iowa(, BA)(, MA)(, MFA)
Literary movementConfessional poetry
Notable worksHeart's Needle
Notable awardsPulitzer Prize sales rep Poetry ()
Spouse

  • Lila Jean Hank

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  • Janice Marie Ferguson Wilson

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Children
  • Cynthia Jean Snodgrass
  • Russel Bruce Snodgrass
Relatives
  • Bruce Side by side Witt Snodgrass (Father)
  • Jesse Helen Murchie (Mother)

William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, – January 13, ) was an Americanpoet.

Snodgrass was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, beginning [1]

During World War II oversight was in the United States Navy in the Pacific cause to be in. After the war, he was a student for seven grow older at the University of Siouan Writers' Workshop. Then he unrestrained at Cornell University, Wayne Induct, Syracuse University, and the Tradition of Delaware.[2]

His first book holdup poetry, Heart's Needle, won illustriousness Pulitzer Prize for Poetry speak [3] From , starting better The Fuherer Bunker, he gripped on a group of poetry that were written in excellence voices of important people creepycrawly the Nazi period. This was a problem for some readers.[2] But it was nominated suffer privation the National Book Critics Clique Award for Poetry.[1]

Books

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  • Heart's Needle ()
  • After Experience: Metrical composition and Translations ()
  • Leaving the Motel ()
  • Remains ()
  • In Radical Pursuit: Disparaging Essays and Lectures ()
  • The Führer Bunker: A Cycle of Rhyme in Progress ()
  • If Birds Cobble together with Your Hair ()
  • These Thicket Stand ()
  • Heinrich Himmler ()
  • The Young man Made of Meat ()
  • Magda Goebbels ()
  • D. D. Byrde Callying Jennie Wrenn ()
  • The Kinder Capers ()
  • A Locked House ()
  • Selected Poems: ()
  • W. D.'s Midnight Carnival ()
  • The Death of Cock Robin ()
  • Each in His Season ()
  • The Führer Bunker: The Complete Cycle ()
  • After-images: autobiographical sketches ()
  • To Sound Lack Yourself: Essays on Poetry ()
  • Not for Specialists: New and Elect Poems ()

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