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War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now

Literature & Fiction

Nemerov, Howard

Poetry

University of Chicago Press

Howard Nemerov has written often about wars great and small, the overtly political and the deeply personal. But only with the passage of time, a heightening of technique and deepening of insight, has he been able to write from his experience in World War II as he does here, where historical past and personal history finally dovetail. From "The War in the Heavens" to "The War in the Streets," Nemerov chronicles with devastating grace the harrowing of life. "These new poems of Howard Nemerov are the poems of a master at his best. What is more, they are accessible. They speak out in a beautiful unclouded voice of the experience of a flyer of the Second World War. Although as 'war poems' they take their place among the best of that genre, they resonate far beyond their history with an arresting immediacy."—Karl Shapiro "Nemerov is the poet of our sanity, his the vision of the heroic ordinary. . . . Forty years after W. W. II, Nemerov's experiences in that war translate into timeless poetry. . . . Nemerov's poetry will outlast our generation: to read it now is to take part in something of ourselves and our world that will—and should—endure."—The Virginia Quarterly Review "Throughout all his verse, formal language sets up a proscenium, keeping sentiment at a distance. In this elegant theatre, he tells stories that always, first, are works of art."—Denise Low, Kansas City Star

Poems take a fresh look at sunrises, dogs, religion, old age, flight, the senses, graffiti, poets, the seasons, travel, and death

Inside the Onion

Univ of Chicago Pr

Early poems, selections from previously published collections and 15 poems which have appeared in periodicals only

New and Selected Poems

History & Criticism

Next Room of the Dream: Poems and Two Plays

Lyrical works by the New England writer probe aspects of the scholarly life, contemporary America, and nature

The Blue Swallows

Advance Promotion Copy. Minor chips and rubbing wear to the extremities of the dust jacket.

Gnomes and Occasions

Gnomes and Occasions Poems

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 in the classics, a master of the craft. It is refreshing to read his work. . . . "?Minneapolis Tribune "The world causes in Nemerov a mingled revulsion and love, and a hopeless hope is the most attractive quality in his poems, which slowly turn obverse to reverse, seeing the permanence of change, the vices of virtue, the evanescence of solidities and the errors of truth."?Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review

Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov

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War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now

War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now

Inside the Onion

Inside the Onion

New and Selected Poems

Next Room of the Dream: Poems and Two Plays

The Blue Swallows

Gnomes and Occasions

Gnomes and Occasions Poems

Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov