W. D. Snodgrass
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Description
American poet who won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Books
De/compositions
"Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.D. Snodgrass redefines poetry criticism by illustrating how the poems we love could have been written differently or worse or badly. Snodgrass actually rewrites poems by authors ranging from Elizabeth Bishop to Shakespeare, and displays the reworked version side-by-side with the original, so one can appreciate the subtle shifts that occur - word by word, line by line, stanza by stanza - and gain a better understanding of the merits of the original work."--BOOK JACKET.
Selected poems
Lark in the morning
Seventeen-year-old Gillian, finding that the thieves who broke into her family's vacation house are two young runaways terrified of being sent back to their abusive parents, decides to help them hide out from the authorities.