Howard Nemerov
1920 - 1991
Howard Nemerov was an American poet. Nemerov was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. 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.Poems
- Learning the Trees
- Fugue
- The Dependencies
- The Icehouse In Summer
- The Author To His Body On Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
- I Only Am Escaped Alone To Tell Thee
- The Brief Journey West
- The Vacuum
- The Murder Of William Remington
- The host, he says that all is well
- The View From An Attic Window
- The War In The Air