To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry

Showing how one can work from ""Pulse and Impulse,"" ""Shapes Merging and Emerging"" and even ""Against Your Beliefs,"" poet W.D. Snodgrass offers a series of well-tempered how-tos in To Sound Like Yourself: Essays on Poetry. Snodgrass, whose Pulitzer Prize-winning Hearts Needle (1960) remains influential, gives prosodic examples from Whitman, shows how to add just the right amount of acid to parody and gives sound advice on all sorts of syllabic manipulations.