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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780804010603
ISBN: 0804010609
Label: Swallow Press
Manufacturer: Swallow Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: June 23, 2003
Publisher: Swallow Press
Studio: Swallow Press
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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 distinguished himself on the landscape of American letters as a writer of great versatility. More than a decade after his death, that claim still holds true. In this, the only edition of Nemerov's work that surveys his entire poetic output, first-time readers of these poems will find an introduction to a truly remarkable creative mind. Longtime admirers of Nemerov will be reminded once again of his significance as a craftsman and philosopher, and as a poetic steward of the many ways in which we experience the world.
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Nature fills my days with wonder and beauty. Cedar trees, firs; squirrels scampering, song birds singing so sweetly that I can only close my eyes and imagine the extent of music's influence and healing. Nature speaks in glorious ways and dispenses wisdom beyond this world's knowledge.
So, I cannot imagine someone blinded to the degree that they fully believe nature possesses "no divine signature."
Nature bearing G-d's message has gone out to all the earth and their words to the far ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780804010603
ISBN: 0804010609
Label: Swallow Press
Manufacturer: Swallow Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 168
Publication Date: June 23, 2003
Publisher: Swallow Press
Studio: Swallow Press