Letter from William De Witt Snodgrass to William Ewert concerning Snodgrass\u27s poem The Meat Boy.https://scholars.unh.edu/snodgrass/1014/thumbnail.jp

Snodgrass, W. D. (William De Witt), 1926-2009

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Transcription:VCCA, Mt. San AngeloSweet Briar, Va., 24595Jan 14, 1982Dear Bill,Guess what? Here it is. (Having said that I supposeI'll go back and make a million little changes -- I usuallydo, esp, after I say I'm all through!) But at leasttonight I think I'm done. The only thing I know Imight change is the name -- when I get back to DelawareI'll ask my son what he thinks about that. As a boyhe was called "Buzzy" but now he's in his mid-20s.As you see, the piece lengthened out again, butI'm really pleased with the way it's developed. Ihonestly think it's much better and hope you'llthink so, too. Among other you more obvious changes, you'llnote that I've roughed up the metres a good deal --the more regular thing got much too monotonous. Ithink that other changes will be quite apparent.Transcription:I'm glad you stumbled over this piece. Before, it justseemed to be a piece I'd failed to realize -- or at leasta piece that I didn't feel either good or bad about. It'sgood to have gone back and worked it over again(twice more!) and now to have something of a result.But Jayzoose Kayryste! why does everything haveto take me 35 years?!? I sure had better live toan old age!Let me hear from you -- I'll be here tillFeb. 7.All the best,D.E.

Letter from William De Witt Snodgrass to William Ewert, January 14, 1982

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Letter from William De Witt Snodgrass to William Ewert, January 14, 1982

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