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American poet WD Snodgrass won several awards including the Pulitzer Prize for his first collection of poetry, "Hearts Needle". His controversial fifth anthology "The Führer Bunker" received heavy criticism but in recent years their importance has been recognised. [Listener: William B. Patrick]

TRANSCRIPT: You know that the cycle called Heart's Needle is about thinking I had lost my daughter in a divorce. And finally, after a lot of trouble in the courts and so forth, you know, you… you get rights of visitation, which they're always trying to cut off. And they're finding one way after another to stop them. But very often there in Iowa City, I would take my child… my child over to the park and… and there were swings and things of that sort there. Well you know, if you're any good as a parent, one thing that you learn, or that you have to do — maybe you don't learn it — is to let go. And there come times when you, you know, you… and sometimes you have to be pushing the child away from you; You keep wanting to grab it. Well, you can't. And on the swing, this is very much the thing. You're always pushing the child away from you but hoping it comes back. Ok, let's take a couple minutes while I get over having said that.