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Although known primarily as a poet, Howard Nemerov has distinguished himself as a critic, short story writer, novelist, and poet. With nearly four dozen poems including two that have not yet been collected, eight stories, fourteen essays, and one complete novel, A Howard Nemerov Reader represents the career of one of America's most distinguished men of letters.
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"Nemerov's contribution to our literature--as a gifted writer of fiction and critical prose, but pre-eminently as a poet-- does not seem to me to have received as much celebrity as it deserves. . . . Nemerov's virtues are all in fact unfashionable ones for our time: vivid intelligence, an irreverent sense of humor, a mastery of formal verse, an awareness of mystery."--The Nation
Howard Nemerov wrote more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and criticism. His dozens of awards included the National Book Award (1978), the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1978), the Bollingen Prize for Poetry (1981), and the National Medal for the Arts in Poetry (1978). He had a distinguished career as a teacher at Washington University in St. Louis and served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990. ,,
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- PublisherUniversity of Missouri Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0826207766
- ISBN 13 9780826207760
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages534
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. University of Missouri Press, 1991. First edition, first printing. Hardbound. New/New, a perfect unread copy, still in shrink-wrap! Poet laureate of the U.S. (1988-1990), critic, fiction writer and teacher, Nemerov here gathers selected works--most of it prose long out of print--from 1947 to 1987. His poetry is formal and disciplined, made radiant by the wry, the fresh, the shocking image. Reminders of mortality arise from his observation of creatures: the "wide and moony grin" of "The Goose Fish," over whose remains two lovers stumble on a beach at night. In the charming "Digressions Around a Crow," the essayist watches his son play with an oddly tame crow. Other essays indicate that the act of poetry is ascetic dedication ("The Swaying Form: A Problem in Poetry"), that great art is sacred ("Composition and Fate in the Short Novel"). Nemerov's critical stance is the traditional, humanely patriarchal aesthetic of mid-century, undisturbed by current trends; his criteria for excellence derive from those he admires, namely, cultured white male authors. The fiction ranges from primly whimsical stories to the novel Federigo (1954), a learned, witty farce of adultery and the doppelganger. FERRY. Seller Inventory # 84120
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