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Howard Nemerov, 1988. Howard Nemerov (1920–91), one of America’s finest poets, was also arguably the wittiest. In 1978 he received the Pulitzer Prize in Arts and Letters and in 1977 the National Book Award for his Collected Poems. He was a pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force and the U.S. Army Air Force, novelist, critic, professor of ...
7 de jul. de 1991 · Howard Nemerov, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former poet laureate of the United States, died late Friday at his house in University City, a suburb of St. Louis. He was 71 years old.
Howard Nemerov’s work is intensely aware of eternal mysteries, which can only be glimpsed through the mirror of language. He writes of his uneasy relationship with language in Figures of Thought , a book of essays published in 1978, stating, “All that we think depends upon language, language that already exists before we think”, later describing thinking as an “artifice”.
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920– July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize. Nemerov was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and ...
Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov. By Howard Nemerov. The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978."Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet, grounded ...
Howard Nemerov (1920-1991) was born in New York City and was the author of 21 poetry collections. For a little more than 40 years he continued his teaching career at Bennington College, Brandeis University, and Washington University in St. Louis where he was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Poet in Residence for more than 20 years.
Howard Nemerov. Howard Nemerov was born in 1920 in New York City and received his bachelor’s degree from Harvard University in 1941. After leaving Harvard, he joined the Royal Canadian unit of the U.S. Army Air Force and served as a pilot over the North Sea throughout World War II. After the war, Nemerov and his wife moved to New York City ...
