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Blends Russell Baker's Growing Up and Roethke's The Poet and His Craft with Snodgrass's unique spice.
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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.Perhaps the most fascinating pages are given to Snodgrass's years as a student at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and of his literary friendships with Randall Jarrell and John Berryman, and of his complex relationship with Robert Lowell - a teacher and student mutually influencing their work.
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