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"Snodgrass published an earlier selected poems nearly 20 years ago, but this fuller edition ...clarifies as never before the range of his accomplishment ... Snodgrass's devotees must come away from Not for Specialists with deep gratitude ..."-Brad Leithauser
"This is a judicious selection from a significant oeuvre."-Publishers Weekly
"W. D. Snodgrass stays loyal to his unpoetic surname, and the essential claim his poetry makes is that it is necessary to write beautifully."-Clive James
"This master inspires reverence."-Wayne Koestenbaum
"It is not difficult to believe W. D. Snodgrass's boast that he is descended, on one side of his family, from Robert Herrick and, on the other side, from Robert Burns. His lyricism is not only the most consistent among the confessional poets, it is the most insistent ..."-J. D. McClatchy
