Poetry for Students, Volume 29

had been diminished. The two countries that were left in the strongest positions were the United States and the Soviet Union, wh ...

Some critics attribute Snodgrass’s waning reputation to the tremendous impact ‘‘Heart’s Needle’’ had when it was first published ...

to distance himself from, and for good reason. For one thing, the description is counterproduc- tive in regards to understanding ...

If this is true, then the poem might indeed well deserve its categorization as confessional. The speaker is perhaps confessing t ...

fair game for verse, inspiring M. L. Rosenthal to create the label ‘‘confessional poetry.’’ These books shocked readers in 1959 ...

second book,After Experience(1968), a poem unfortunately left out ofNot for Specialists: Sorting out letters and piles of my old ...

nature of many of the characters resists his attempts to humanize them, and we don’t feel the force of poetic revelation; a more ...

skill and unapologetic about his formalism, the secret subject of ‘‘Warning,’’ a poem ostensibly about ‘‘rumors that Richard Wil ...

SNODGRASS:Yeah. And each one would also have a different sound, I would hope. I don’t mean that you necessarily pause at the end ...

called these my really confessional poems. Some critics would like to accuse me of somehow approving the Nazis, but the poems wo ...

come through. He became an economist and the government sent him around to different places to work. When he got to retirement a ...

I mean, you get all those violent sexual scenes, dealing with touch, inSong of Myself—I forget which section it is—that turn int ...

Further Reading Egan, Catherine, ‘‘A Cycle of Identity: W. D. Snodgrass’ Pseudonym S. S. Gardons,’’ inJournal of Undergraduate R ...

homage to my hips Lucille Clifton’s ‘‘homage to my hips’’ first appeared in the book Two-Headed Woman (1980), a collection of po ...

Her father was a steelworker, her mother a laun- dress and homemaker. Clifton was born with six fingers on each hand, a trait sh ...

Following the death of her husband, Clifton endured breast cancer in 1994 and kidney failure in 1997. She received a kidney tran ...

Themes Cultural Notions of Beauty In ‘‘homage to my hips,’’ Clifton makes a state- ment about culturally held notions of beauty. ...

In ‘‘homage to my hips’’ Clifton is also asso- ciating herself with the ‘‘Black Is Beautiful’’ movement of the 1960s and 1970s, ...

synecdoche for sailors for two reasons: first, sai- lors perform most of their work with their hands, and second, when a captain ...

the followers of Malcolm X, rejected King’s non- violent approach to integration, preferring to focus on African American self-s ...