Description: Heart's Needle, by W.D. Snodgrass. 1st Edition which was limited to 1500 copies. Published by Alfred A. Knopf of New York in 1959. W.D. Snodgrass (1926-2009) Snodgrass was considered one of the central figures of the Confessional mode, even though he disliked the term and did not regard his work as such. “Like other confessional poets, Snodgrass is at pains to reveal the repressed, violent feelings that often lurk beneath the seemingly placid surface of everyday life,” David McDuff observes in Stand. The style was imitated and, in some cases, surpassed by other poets. This fact leads Yale Review’s Laurence Lieberman to comment that a later book, After Experience (1967), reveals “an artist trapped in a style which ... has reached a dead end,” because other poets had taken the Confessional mode in a different direction than Snodgrass’s own. However, later works by Snodgrass show him widening his vision to apply the lessons of self-examination to the problems of 20th-century Western culture. His poems also present, beyond the direct-statement and sentimentality common to confessional poetry, an inclusiveness of detail and variety of technique aimed to impact the reader’s subconscious as well as conscious mind.The combination of the traditional and the confessional in Snodgrass’s writing prompted Thomas Lask of the New York Times to write, “In Heart’s Needle ... Snodgrass spoke in a distinctive voice. It was one that was jaunty and assertive on the surface but somber and hurt beneath. ... It is one of the few books that successfully bridged the directness of contemporary free verse with the demands of the academy.” Condition: Sound binding. Spine is sunned. There is a bump to the top of the front and back board. Former owner's bookplate and a number stamp on front pastedown. Small glue?? circle on front free endpaper. Text is clean, tight and whole. 7 1/2" x 5 1/2" with 63 pages plus 1 page of info.
Price: 29.74 USD
Location: Westbrook, Connecticut
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Topic: Poetry
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Limited Edition
Author: W. D. SNODGRASS
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1959
