by
W. D. Snodgrass
American Reader Series
In After-Images: Autobiographical Sketches, renowned poet W.D.
Snodgrass offers his frank and evocative essays on his life
as a student, lover, son, husband and poet. Divided into thirteen
sections, he begins in his hometown of Beaver Falls, a milltown
so clamorous that ". . . walking the dog at night, you
were horizoned by the distant clamor of mills and foundries.
We never heard this though, unless there was a strike and it
stopped." This book concludes in a kind of double homecoming,
with Snodgrass returning to his hometown for the 50th reunion
of the Beaver Fallas High School Class of '43, as well as to
one of his first loves—music, a passion shared by his
wife, Kathy. "If music has been a more constant mistress
than a wife," Snodgrass muses in the book's final portion,
"it's still better to have a wife or mistress who constantly
makes music."
Available editions:
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Cloth
ISBN:
1-880238-75-6
Price:
$20.00
Publishing
Date: April 1999
Paperback
ISBN:
1-880238-76-4
Price:
$15.00
Publishing
Date: April 1999
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