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by: W.D. Snodgrass
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780394722207
ISBN: 0394722205
Label: Knopf
Manufacturer: Knopf
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 62
Publication Date: October 12, 1983
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date: October 12, 1983
Sales Rank: 175290
Studio: Knopf
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Rating:  - The First "Confessional" Poet
Snodgrass is considered the grand-daddy of "confessional poets" who would follow him: Lowell and Plath in particular. One can see this in "Heart's Needle," the rampant appeal toward subjective experience, the filter of the self being the arbiter of all values. If the reader is used to the searing verse of Lowell or Plath, than Snodgrass' poetry can seem a bit more tame and disappointing. He takes on more quotidian themes, which one would expect from a college professor, like the girls in his class ... Read More
Rating: - Poetry Class
Although a biology major, I took a poetry class as an undergraduate in the early 1960s. Heart's Needle was on the reading list. I still treasure this book, and it sits on my-favorite-book shelf with about two dozen other superb books I have read over the last 45 years.
Rating: - Wonderful!
One of my favorite books of poetry. Snodgrass' poems about his daughter are beautiful and heartbreaking.
Rating: - Yes, but...
It's true that Heart's Needle is out of print, but it can still be found in Snodgrass's Selected Poems: 1957-1987.
Rating: - good
Good poetry. Let it be noted, though, to writers in search of fame and immortality through their works, that this volume won the Pultizer Prize in 1960. And it's now out of print! And no readers had posted a review when I wrote this one. So much for the impact of literature.
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