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Snodgrass died in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"after-images-autobiographical-sketches","title":"After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eAfter-Images: Autobiographical Sketches\u003c\/em\u003e, renowned poet W.D. Snodgrass offers his frank and evocative essays on his life as a student, lover, son, husband and poet. Divided into thirteen sections, he begins in his hometown of Beaver Falls, a milltown so clamorous that “walking the dog at night, you were horizoned by the distant clamor of mills and foundries. We never heard this though, unless there was a strike and it stopped.” This book concludes in a kind of double homecoming, with Snodgrass returning to his hometown for the 50th reunion of the Beaver Falls High School Class of '43, as well as to one of his first loves—music, a passion shared by his wife, Kathy. “If music has been a more constant mistress than a wife,” Snodgrass muses in the book's final portion, “it's still better to have a wife or mistress who constantly makes music.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":9644626117,"sku":"9781880238769","price":12.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40608114933931,"sku":"","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/files\/AfterImagescover.jpg?v=1784817212"},{"product_id":"each-in-his-season","title":"Each in His Season","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eEach In His Season\u003c\/em\u003e, Pulitzer Prize winner W. 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All of the poems reflect Snodgrass' own psychological, historical, and moral imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDr. Joseph Goebbels\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Former Minister for Propaganda\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e1 May, 1945.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e(Russian troops are within yards of the bunker. After a brief leavetaking, Goebbels and Magda climb to the garden to commit suicide)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSay goodbye to the help, the ranks\u003cbr\u003e Of Stalin-bait. Give too much thanks\u003cbr\u003e to Naumann-- Magda's lover: we\u003cbr\u003e Thank him for all his loyalty.\u003cbr\u003e Schwaegermann; Rach. After a while\u003cbr\u003e Turn back to them with a sad smile:\u003cbr\u003e We'll save them trouble-- no one cares\u003cbr\u003e Just now to carry us upstairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTurn away; check your manicure;\u003cbr\u003e Pull on your gloves. Take time; make sure\u003cbr\u003e The hat brim curves though the hat's straight.\u003cbr\u003e Give her your arm. Let the fools wait;\u003cbr\u003e They act like they've someplace to go.\u003cbr\u003e Take the stairs, now. Self-control. Slow.\u003cbr\u003e A slight limp; just enough to see,\u003cbr\u003e Pass on, and infect history. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe rest is silence. Left like sperm\u003cbr\u003e In a stranger's gut, waiting its term,\u003cbr\u003e Each thought, each step lies; the roots spread.\u003cbr\u003e They'll believe in us when we're dead.\u003cbr\u003e When we took \"Red Berlin\" we found \u003cbr\u003e We always worked best underground.\u003cbr\u003e So; the vile body turns to spirit \u003cbr\u003e That speaks soundlessly. They'll hear it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Cloth","offer_id":40608572113067,"sku":"9781880238196","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/FUEHRER_BUNKER.jpg?v=1527683371"},{"product_id":"not-for-specialists-new-and-selected-poems","title":"Not for Specialists: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eResponsible for the emergence of American confessional poetry, W. D. Snodgrass won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for his first book of poems, \u003cem\u003eHeart's Needle\u003c\/em\u003e. Mr. Snodgrass followed that astonishing work with\u003cem\u003e After Experience \u003c\/em\u003e(1967) and \u003cem\u003eThe Fuhrer Bunker\u003c\/em\u003e, published by BOA Editions in 1977. The latter was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry and produced for The American Place Theatre.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eSitting Outside \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e These lawn chairs and the chaise lounge\u003cbr\u003e of bulky redwood were purchased for my father \u003cbr\u003e twenty years ago, then plumped down in the yard\u003cbr\u003e where he seldom went when he could still work\u003cbr\u003e and never had stayed long. His left arm\u003cbr\u003e in a sling, then lopped off, he smoked there or slept\u003cbr\u003e while the weather lasted, watched what cars passed,\u003cbr\u003e read stock reports, counted pills,\u003cbr\u003e then dozed again. I didn’t go there\u003cbr\u003e in those last weeks, sick of the delusions\u003cbr\u003e they still maintained, their talk of plans\u003cbr\u003e for some boat tour or a trip to the Bahamas\u003cbr\u003e once he’d recovered. Under our willows, \u003cbr\u003e this old set’s done well: we’ve sat with company,\u003cbr\u003e read or taken notes-although the arm rests\u003cbr\u003e get dry and splintery or wheels drop off\u003cbr\u003e so the whole frame’s weakened if it’s hauled\u003cbr\u003e across rough ground. Of course the trees, too, \u003cbr\u003e may be less than everlasting: leaves storm down, \u003cbr\u003e branches crack off, the riddled bark \u003cbr\u003e separates, then gets shed. I have a son, myself, \u003cbr\u003e with things to be looked after. 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