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 intellige nce, 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 a
nd even, perhaps, hated by all others and returning their dislike,
a brutal, foul-mouthed 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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