W. D. Snodgrass
William De Witt Snodgrass (January 5, 1926 – January 13, 2009) was an American poet.
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| Born | William De Witt Snodgrass 5 January 1926 Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Died | 13 January 2009 (aged 83) Erieville, New York, United States |
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| Occupation | Poet, professor |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Geneva College University of Iowa (1949, BA) (1951, MA) (1953, MFA) |
| Literary movement | Confessional poetry |
| Notable works | Heart's Needle |
| Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1960) |
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Snodgrass was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania, in 1926.[1]
During World War II he was in the United States Navy in the Pacific area . After the war, he was a student for seven years at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. Then he taught at Cornell University, Wayne State, Syracuse University, and the University of Delaware.[2]
His first book of poetry, Heart's Needle, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1960.[3] From 1977, starting with The Fuherer Bunker, he worked on a group of poems that were written in the voices of important people in the Nazi period. This was a problem for some readers.[2] But it was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.[1]
Books
- Heart's Needle (1959)
- After Experience: Poems and Translations (1968)
- Leaving the Motel (1968)
- Remains (1970)
- In Radical Pursuit: Critical Essays and Lectures (1975)
- The Führer Bunker: A Cycle of Poems in Progress (1977)
- If Birds Build with Your Hair (1979)
- These Trees Stand (1981)
- Heinrich Himmler (1982)
- The Boy Made of Meat (1983)
- Magda Goebbels (1983)
- D. D. Byrde Callying Jennie Wrenn (1984)
- The Kinder Capers (1986)
- A Locked House (1986)
- Selected Poems: 1957-1987 (1987)
- W. D.'s Midnight Carnival (1988)
- Each in His Season (1993)
- The Führer Bunker: The Complete Cycle (1995)
- After-images: autobiographical sketches (1999)
- To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry (2002)
- Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems (2006)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "W. D. Snodgrass". Poets.org. 2023. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Raban, Jonathan (2013). "Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt)". Oxford Reference - The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
- ↑ "The 1960 Pulitzer Prize Winner in Poetry". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2023. Retrieved March 1, 2023.
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