To Sound Like Yourself by Wd Snodgrass

To Sound Like Yourself by Wd Snodgrass

In his first collection of essays on poetry in 27 years, W.D. Snodgrass goes after that seminal quality, the poet's individual voice, that separates the best poetry from the merely technical and pedantic. Beginning with an essay on the poetic impulse, and continuing through prosody and musicality, Snodgrass gives us an essential handbook for poets and poetry readers.

Responsible for the emergence of American confessional poetry, W.D. Snodgrass won the 1960 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his first book, Heart's Needle. He lives with his wife, critic and translator Kathleen Snodgrass, in Erieville, New York, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.

W.D.Snodgrass is the author of more than twenty collections of poetry, two collections of literary criticism, and six collections of translations. The Academy of American Poets, Ford Foundation, Guggenheim Foundation, and National Endowment for the Arts have all given him fellowships, as well as an Ingram Merrill Foundation award and a Harold Morton Landon Translation Award. In 1994, he stopped teaching.