Howard Nemerov (1920 - 1991)

Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate 1988-1990, winner of National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize. He was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus.

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First Line	Comments
Across the millstream below the bridge	1 Comment
After the red leaf and the gold have gone,	1 Comment
Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn
Flaubert wanted to write a novel
He didn't want to do it with skill,
Here at the Super Duper, in a glass tank	1 Comment
I
I met a guy I used to know, who said:	1 Comment
I tell you that I see her still
Innocence?	4 Comments
On the long shore, lit by the moon	3 Comments
People are putting up storm windows now,
Some nights it's bound to be your best way out,
Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle	1 Comment
The fishermen on Lake Michigan, sometimes,
The waters deep, the waters dark,
They're taking down a tree at the front door,
This admirable gadget, when it is
This morning, between two branches of a tree
Two lovers to a midnight meadow came	1 Comment
Two universes mosey down the street
What gives it power makes it change its mind
When in still air and still in summertime
Who can remember back to the first poets,
You know the old story Ann Landers tells
You see them vanish in their speeding cars,