Clifton Snider's Reading Interests
Favorite Books
Orlando, Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden, A Single Man, The Importance of Being Earnest, and too many others to mention
What I'm Reading
Just Kids, by Patti Smith
Favorite Authors
Virginia Woolf, W. H. Auden, Christopher Isherwood, Oscar Wilde, Emily Dickinson, Alan Hollinghurst, etc., etc.
Influences
As a poet, I suppose my chief influences have been Auden and Emily Dickinson, Creeley, Cavafy, and, Edward Field.
Clifton Snider’s Bookmarks
"One of America's best . . . contemporary poets."”
—Eva von Kesselhausen, Small Press Review, March-April 2001
About Clifton
Clifton Snider is the author of ten highly-acclaimed books of poetry, including The Age of the Mother (1992), The Alchemy of Opposites (2000), and Moonman: New and Selected Poems (2012). His novel about a bisexual rock star, Loud Whisper, was published in...
Causes Clifton Snider Supports
Lambda Legal, Courage Campaign, Human Rights Campaign
Clifton’s Favorite Books
Orlando, Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden, A Single Man, The Importance of Being Earnest, and too many others to mention