"W. D. Snodgrass was one of the finest English-speaking poets of his generation, the generation that came to maturity in the aftermath of the Second World War. Not for Specialists draws on his Pulitzer Prize winning debut volume, Heart's Needle (1959), and on After Experience (1968), Remains (1970, 1985), Selected Poems, 1957-1987, The Fuehrer Bunker (1977, 1995), Kinder Capers (1986-2004), and Each in His Season (1993). It ends with some forty new poems equal in strength to the best of his previous work."--BOOK JACKET
