Not For Specialists: New and Selected Poems.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Snodgrass,W. D. (William De Witt)

Series:

American Poets Continuum

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Rochester : BOA Editions, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<div>35 new poems and selections from six previous collections including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Heart's Needle.</div>

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; from Heart's Needle, 1959; These Trees Stand . . .; Ten Days Leave; Returned to Frisco, 1946; April Inventory; Heart's Needle; from After Experience, 1968; "After Experience Taught Me . . ."; The Examination; A Flat One; Lying Awake; Lobsters in the Window; What We Said; Leaving the Motel; A Friend; No Use; The Lovers Go Fly a Kite; Van Gogh: "The Starry Night"; from Remains, 1970, 1985; The Mother; The Mouse; Viewing the Body; Disposal; Fourth of July; To a Child; from Selected Poems, 1957-1987; An Elm Tree; Old Apple Trees; A Phoebe's Nest

OwlsMutability; The Last Time; A Valediction; A Locked House; Old Jewelry; A Seashell; Love Lamp; from The Fuehrer Bunker, 1977, 1995; Chorus: "Old Lady Barkeep"; Dr. Joseph Goebbels, "Days, American bombing flights"; Martin Bormann, "Dearest Beloved Momsy Girl"; Albert Speer, "So / I am / Reborn?"; Hermann Goering, "And Why, Herr Reichsmarschall . . ."; Heinrich Himmler, "ASTRALSIGNSSUGGEST"; Adolf Hitler, "Down: I got it all. Almost"; Albert Speer, "We / Saved / The bridges"; Magda Goebbels, "Now Joseph's sister's offered us . . ."; Heinrich Himmler, "ARYANPURITYASTRAIN"

Adolf Hitler, "Best stuffed in a bag and drowned"Eva Braun, "Tea for two/ And two for tea"; Dr. Joseph Goebbels, "Stand back, make way . . ."; Adolf Hitler, "'To master the world . . .'"; Magda Goebbels, "This is the needle that we give"; Hermann Goering, "When I speak to you . . ."; Heinrich Himmler, "ANEYE-PATCH"; Dr. Joseph Goebbels, "Say goodbye to the help . . ."; Chorus: "Old Lady Barkeep"; from Kinder Capers, 1986-2004; Seasoned Chairs for a Child; W. D. Picks a Bouquet for Cock Robin . . .; W. D. Sits in Kafka's Chair and Is Interrogated . . .; Auction; The Capture of Mr. Sun

A Strolling Minstrel's Ballad . . .The Carnival Girl Darkly Attracts W. D.; Wire Walker; The Drunken Minstrel Rags his Bluegrass Lute; W. D. Studies the Spectra of Departure; Disguised as Humpty-Dumpty . . .; Dance Suite: Hip Hop; The Poet Ridiculed by Hysterical Academics; from Each in His Season, 1993; from Spring Suite; from Summer Sequence; from Autumn Variations; from Snow Songs; Birds Caught, Birds Flying; Elena Ceauçescu's Bed; In Memory of Lost Brain Cells; An Envoi, Post-TURP; A Curse; from In Flower; New Poems; The Discreet Advantages of a Reichstag Fire; Talking Heads

GringoloandiaOn the Streets; Lady!-; At the Villa; Farm Kids; Leavings; On High; Song Slam; Ruffed Grouse; Who Steals My Good Name; Nocturnes; Nightwatchman's Song; Chasing Fireflies; Fast Foods: A Rap Rondeau; Lasting; Parents; Sitting Outside; Pacemaker; Packing Up the Lute; For Hugues Cuenod; Warning; A Forty Gun Salute; Critic; Guru; Lifelong; A Separation Anthem; A Presence; For the Third Marriage of My First Ex-Wife; Phone Message; The Moth Chorale; Double Forte; Invitation; Afterword; Notes; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Colophon

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.

ISBN:

1-938160-70-3

OCLC:

897645751