Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Poetic Obituaries: Mr. [W.D.] Snodgrass was the author

of more than 30 books of poetry and translations. His 1995 collection, The Führer Bunker: The Complete Cycle, was a controversial evocation of the last days of Nazism. One of his most celebrated teaching books is De/Compositions (2001), in which he analyzed more than 100 poems to show how poetry works.

from The Philadelphia Inquirer: W.D. Snodgrass, 83, Pulitzer-winning poet

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