The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov

ISBN-13: 9780804010603 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 178 str.

Howard Nemerov; Daniel Anderson; Wyatt Prunty

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Howard Nemerov - Poet Laureate of the United States, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets - was one of the most prolific and significant American poets of the twentieth century. By the time of his death in 1991, he had published fourteen collections of poetry. Judiciously selected and introduced by poet Daniel Anderson, The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov represents the broad spectrum of Nemerov's virtues as a poet - his intelligence, his wit, his compassion, and his irreverence. It stands as the retrospective collection of the best of what Nemerov left behind, which is some of the finest poetry that the twentieth century produced. To keep his errors down to a minimum, W. H. Auden wrote, the internal Censor to whom a poet submits his work in progress should be a Censorate. It should include, for instance, a sensitive only child, a practical housewife, a logician, a monk, an irreverent buffoon and even, perhaps, hated by all others and returning their dislike, a brutal, foulmouthed drill sergeant who considers all poetry rubbish. Such are the readers to whom the poetry of Howard Nemerov might appeal. He distinguis