Sentences (Phoenix Poets)

Nemerov, Howard

ISBN 10: 0226572625 / ISBN 13: 9780226572628

Published by University Of Chicago Press, 1983

About this Item

Some denting and wear to fore-edge and cover but over all a clean solid copy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sentences (Phoenix Poets)
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226572625
• ISBN 13: 9780226572628
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • American Poetry

About this title

Synopsis

In Sentences, contemporary poet Howard Nemerov adds to his distinguished work a collection of gnomic verses, declarative poems, sonnets after other poets, and sustained lyrics.

"In [Sentences], not only has Nemerov continued to accommodate himself to the literary tradition without falling back on parody; he has also . . . extended the resources of blank verse beyond what any modern practitioner, himself included, has managed to. This extension comprises more than a mere prosodic advance; it is a rhetorical and imaginative advance. 'By Al Lebowitz's Pool,' 'The Makers,' 'Monet,' and 'A Christmas Storm,' for example, are dazzling in their very naturalness. . . . No one since Frost has done as much to move blank verse from where Wordsworth and Coleridge had left it."—Mary Kinzie, Poetry

About the Author

Howard Nemerov has won the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.