Clifton Snider's Books
May.14.2012
A career-spanning retrospective of the work of one of Long Beach's most accomplished and enduring poets, "Moonman: New and Selected Poems," once again establishes Clifton Snider as Southern California's answer to W.H. Auden. A beautiful, stunningly impressive book. (From World Parade Books on Amazon.com)
May.23.2009
This poem appears in a 284-page anthology, Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, edited by Robert L. Giron. Other poets in the anthology include Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Dana Gioia, Joy Harjo, and Arthur Rimbaud.
Jan.01.2008
Using Jungian and queer theory, this article examines the queer personas of Ennis and Jack, whose queer archetypes fit into a context that had not generally been thought to contain those archetypes. For perhaps the first time a major motion picture appealed to and depicted what Steven Drukman calls the “gay gaze.” Ennis and Jack conform to socially constructed gender roles (as “...
Dec.01.2001
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Summary of Wrestling with Angels:A Tale of Two Brothers Based on a true story, Wrestling with Angels is a fictional account of two Pentecostal preacher's sons. Brothers born five years apart, Darren and Brandon seem like complete opposites. Darren, the older brother...
Feb.01.2001
Summary of Bare Roots
Set in the 1960s and 70s, Bare Roots is a coming of age novel about a sensitive, intelligent boy, Justin Crystal. Born in Wisconsin, Justin grows up from age seven in Southern California, an only child of divorced parents. When he goes away to a fundamentalist college, he discovers who he is through a passionate but ultimately futile love affair with his...
This article analyzes Oscar Wilde's alcoholism and self-destructive personality as the adult child of alcoholics and as a romance addict who preferred younger men.
My longest book of poems (144 pages), The Alchemy of Opposites contains all the poems that I wish to preserve written since 1992 to its publication in 2000. Although a favorite topic is the natural world (animals, plants, earth, the cosmos), I also appropriate images from various mythologies (including that of Native Americans, particularly the Zuni people, the ancient Nordic...
Synopsis for Loud Whisper
Adam (Zed) Avery is the hub around which the spokes of this novel revolve. Sexy, impulsive, reckless, he is the dedicated leader of a Southern California rock band called The Spacs. Beneath his defiant veneer lies a sensitive, literate, generous individual. The product of an upper middle class family, Adam is never content for long with the numerous...
Snider's first book of poems since The Alchemy of Opposites (2000), Aspens in the Wind (2009) contains the best of his poetry since 2000.
"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