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“... or women poets. Of the translators, all poets, Ezra Pound is represented by 15 songs, W.D. Snodgrass by 19, and Kehew by 21, conveniently arranged on facing pages opposite their originals. For his indelibly quirky, archaising versions, Pound favoured the verse of the bellicose Bertran de Born (whom Dante condemned to hell as a fomentor of strife) and ...”

“... Part Way Back (1960), the poem shows Sexton’s craft, honed with advice from John Holmes, W.D. Snodgrass and Robert Lowell. Retrieved at the last moment from her ‘bone pile’ of discards to fill out the book, it had gone through 19 drafts before Sexton achieved what Middlebrook calls the ‘double “I” ’ of the stanza and refrain. It was not ...”

“... a total faith in pure intelligence’); a demand for intensity, for what Hamilton calls in W.D. Snodgrass ‘a voice at once poised and inflamed’. Compared to that sort of engaged criticism, the writing on poetry in Walking Possession is either knockabout or demurral. One suspects the subjects have been chosen specially. They are ...”

“... of yourself than you redeemdoing the decent thing. Keep at a tangent.When they make the circle wide, it’s time to swimout on your own and fill the elementwith signatures on your own frequency,echo soundings, searches, probes, allurements,elver-gleams in the dark of the whole sea.’If these meetings with writers seem a touch self-regarding (the ...”

“... de Kooning, Lightnin’ Hopkins in concert and a festival of poetry featuring Kenneth Koch, W.D. Snodgrass and Robert Bly. Most fun of all, Barthelme organised an exhibition, New American Artefacts: The Ugly Show, which included all sorts of bits and pieces he’d found in junk shops: plastic flowers and fruit, a giant jar of Vaseline, back issues of ...”

“... they think they’d like to say. The following year she wrote to Lowell to complain about W.D. Snodgrass’s personal poems, calling Snodgrass ‘one of your better imitators’ and saying: ‘You tell things – but never wind up with your own darling gestures, the way he does … I went straight through Life Studies ...”