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Provides up-to-date profiles on the careers of leading and emerging poets.
Make-Believes: Verses and Visions is a collection of three collaborations between the Pulitzer-Prize winning poet, W.D. Snodgrass, and the internationally-acclaimed artist, DeLoss McGraw. With 52 full-color reproductions, the book contains, for the first time under one cover, The Death of Cock Robin, The Midnight Carnival, and Seasoned Chairs for a Child. --Eatonbrook Editions.
Richard Thompson is renowned among cartoonists as an "artist's" cartoonist. Little known to all but those close to him is the extent of his art talent. This is the book that will enlighten the rest of us and delight us with the sheer beauty of his work. Divided into six sections, each beginning with an introductory conversation between Thompson and six well-known peers, including Bill Watterson, the book will present Thompson's illustration work, caricatures, and his creation, Richard's Poor Almanack. Each section is highly illustrated, many works in color, most of them large and printed one-to-a-page. The diversity of work will help cast a wider net, well beyond Cul de Sac fans.
Blends Russell Baker's Growing Up and Roethke's The Poet and His Craft with Snodgrass's unique spice.
Until 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—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. Not for Specialists includes 35 new poems complemented by the superb work he wrote in the Pulitzer Prize winning collection, Heart’s Needle, along with poetry from seven other distinguished collections. from “Nocturnes” Seen from higher up, it makes its first move in...
A poetic-sequence whereby a son's "lost self" attempts to emotionally-connect with his dead father.