\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eUntil the late 1970s, W. D. Snodgrass was known primarily as a confessional poet and a key player in the emergence of that mode of poetry in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Snodgrass makes poetry out of the daily neuroses and everyday failures of a man\u0026mdash;a husband, father, and teacher. This domestic suffering occurs against a backdrop of more universal suffering which Snodgrass believes is inherent in the human experience. \u003ci\u003eNot for Specialists\u003c/i\u003e includes 35 new poems complemented by the superb work he wrote in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, \u003ci\u003eHeart\u0026rsquo;s Needle\u003c/i\u003e, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003efrom \u0026ldquo;Nocturnes\u0026rdquo;\u003c/b\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eSeen from higher up, it makes its first move\u003cbr\u003e in the low creekbed, the marshlands\u003cbr\u003e down the valley, spreading across the open\u003cbr\u003e hayfields, the hedgerows with their tops\u003cbr\u003e still lit, laps the roadbed, flows over\u003cbr\u003e lawns and gardens, past the house and up\u003cbr\u003e the wooded hillside back behind us\u003cbr\u003e till only some few rays still scythe\u003cbr\u003e between the treetrunks from the far horizon\u003cbr\u003e and are gone.\u003c/i\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eW. D. Snodgrass\u003c/b\u003e, born in Pennsylvania in 1926, is the author of more than 20 books of poetry, including \u003ci\u003eThe Fuehrer Bunker: The Complete Cycle\u003c/i\u003e (BOA, 1995); \u003ci\u003eEach in His Season\u003c/i\u003e (BOA, 1993); and \u003ci\u003eHeart's Needle\u003c/i\u003e (1959), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. His other books include \u003ci\u003eTo Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetr\u003c/i\u003ey (BOA, 2002), \u003ci\u003eAfter-Images: Autobiographical Sketches\u003c/i\u003e (BOA, 1999) and six volumes of translation, including \u003ci\u003eSelected Translations\u003c/i\u003e (BOA Editions, 1998), which won the Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/div\u003e
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