Praise for Richard Snyder
“It seems, in retrospect, that Richard Snyder’s poems sum up the virtues of their generation — clarity, firm structure, technical prowess — while, in their freshness and genuine feeling, escaping that same generations faults. I turn to Snyder’s work again and again belatedly thankful for its author’s profound modesty, his insistence on truth-telling, his mastery of the language, his dry and delectable wit, his large and generous spirit, his stubborn and unswerving love for the human race.”
— X.J. Kennedy
“Let me say, above all, that I am sure that Richard Snyder has a vocation for poetry. His poems are high grade and “belong” in print. His exuberance is what I like.”
— John Crowe Ransom
“In this time, when a good deal of what’s ‘in’ hasn’t been thought out, Richard Snyder’s careful and caring poems make him, to my mind, one of the finest poets working today.”
— Alice Moser Claudel
About the Author
An Ohioan, Richard Snyder was educated at Indiana University and at Trinity College, Dublin, where he held a Fulbright. He has received an international award for his short fiction and national recognition for his drama. His poems appeared in leading literary journals in this country, in England, Canada, and Australia, as well as in such national magazines as New Republic, Modern Age, Commonweal, Christian Century, and frequently in the New York Times. He is a founding editor of the Ashland Poetry Press.
