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Howard Nemerov

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I liked the kid who wrote me that he had to do a term paper on a modern poet and he was doing me because, though they say you have to read poems twice, he found he could handle mine in one try.


— Howard Nemerov


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I never abandoned either forms or freedom. I imagine that most of what could be called free verse is in my first book. I got through that fairly early.


— Howard Nemerov


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I sometimes talk about the making of a poem within the poem.


— Howard Nemerov


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I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants.


— Howard Nemerov


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A teacher is a person who never says anything once.


— Howard Nemerov


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It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.


— Howard Nemerov


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Language cares.


— Howard Nemerov


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Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it.


— Howard Nemerov


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Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?


— Howard Nemerov


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Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.


— Howard Nemerov


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His novels have also been commended; they include The Homecoming Game (1957) Federigo: Or the Power of Love (1954) and The Melodramatists (1949). "


Bibliography


Poetry collections
The Image of the Law (1947)
The Vacuum (1955)
The Salt Garden (1955)
Mirrors and Windows (1958)
The Next Room of The Dream: Poems and Two Plays (1962)
The Blue Swallows (1967)
The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems (1968)
Gnomes & Occasions: Poems (1973) University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-57252-8
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977) ISBN 978-0-226-57259-8 —winner of the National Book Award Pulitzer Prize and Bollingen Prize
Sentences (1980) ISBN 978-0-226-57262-8
Inside the Onion (1984) ISBN 0-226-57244-7
War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now (1987) ISBN 978-0-226-57243-7
Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems 1961-1991 (1992) ISBN 978-0-226-57263-5
Grace to be Said at the Supermarket


Prose
The Melodramatists (1949)
Federigo: Or the Power of Love (1954)
The Homecoming Game (1957)
The Commodity of Dreams and Other Stories (1959)
Journal of the Fictive Life (1965) ISBN 978-0-226-57261-1
Stories Fables and Other Diversions (1971)


Literary Scholarship
The Oak in the Acorn: On Remembrance of Things Past and on Teaching Proust Who Will Never Learn (1987) ISBN 978-0-8071-1385-1. Nemerov served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1963 and 1964 as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets beginning in 1976 and two terms as poet laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990.

For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977) he won the National Book Award for PoetryPulitzer Prize for Poetry and Bollingen Prize. Nemerov was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at Stanford University.

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