W.D. Snodgrass - September 13, 1973

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UA Poetry Center

Reading Series
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Modern Languages Auditorium
W.D. Snodgrass

W.D. Snodgrass primarily reads poems from After Experience (1968), providing extensive introductions to each poem that place them in the context of his life and thinking. He closes with three comic poems by Christian Morgenstern, translated from the German with Lore Groszmann Segal in Gallows Songs (1967).

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Introduction
Description

by Lois Shelton

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"The Examination"
Citation

Snodgrass, W.D. After Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

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"After Experience Taught Me..."
Citation

Snodgrass, W.D. After Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

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"Regraduating the Lute"
Citation

Snodgrass, W.D. After Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

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"April Inventory"
Citation

Snodgrass, W.D. Heart's Needle. New York: Knopf, 1959.

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"A Flat One"
Citation

Snodgrass, W.D. After Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

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"Lying Awake"
Citation

Snodgrass, W.D. After Experience. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.

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"Old Apple Trees"
Citation

Snodgrass, W.D. If Birds Build With Your Hair. New York: Nadja, 1979.

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"Palmstrom"
Description

Read by W.D. Snodgrass.

Citation

Morgenstern, Christian. Gallows Songs. Translated by W.D. Snodgrass and Lore Groszmann Segal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.

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"The Spheres"
Description

Read by W.D. Snodgrass.

Citation

Morgenstern, Christian. Gallows Songs. Translated by W.D. Snodgrass and Lore Groszmann Segal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.

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"Palmstrom to a Nightingale That Would Not Let Him Sleep"
Description

Read by W.D. Snodgrass. Published version bears the title "Palmstrom to a Nightingale Which Would Not Let Him Sleep."

Citation

Morgenstern, Christian. Gallows Songs. Translated by W.D. Snodgrass and Lore Groszmann Segal. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1967.

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