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By Howard Nemerov. Before you can learn the trees, you have to learn. The language of the trees. That’s done indoors, Out of a book, which now you think of it. Is one of the transformations of a tree. The words themselves are a delight to learn, You might be in a foreign land of terms. Like samara, capsule, drupe, legume and pome,
Howard Nemerov was born in New York City, and attended the Society for Ethical Culture’s Fieldstone School and Harvard University, where he graduated in 1941. He then served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II, an experience he reflects on in “The War in the Air.” After the war, he completed his first book of poems and began teaching at Hamilton College, his first ...
Howard Nemerov 1, né le 29 février 1920 à New York et mort le 5 juillet 1991 à University City dans le Missouri, est un poète, nouvelliste, critique littéraire et professeur d'université américain. Il remplit la charge de Chancelier de l'Academy of American Poets de 1976 à 1991 2. En 1978 Nemerov reçoit prix Pulitzer et le National ...
By Howard Nemerov. The house is so quiet now. The vacuum cleaner sulks in the corner closet, Its bag limp as a stopped lung, its mouth. Grinning into the floor, maybe at my. Slovenly life, my dog-dead youth. I’ve lived this way long enough, But when my old woman died her soul. Went into that vacuum cleaner, and I can’t bear.
In order to become one of the grown-ups. Who sees invisible things neither steadily nor whole, But keeps gravely the grand confusion of the world. Under his hat, which is where it belongs, And teaches small children to do this in their turn. Howard Nemerov, “To David, About His Education” from War Stories: Poems About Long Ago and Now.
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 ...
Howard Nemerov fue un destacado poeta, novelista y crítico estadounidense que se caracterizó por su ironía y su ingenio autocrítico. Su poesía, a menudo sobre la naturaleza, le valió numerosos reconocimientos, entre ellos el Premio Pulitzer, el National Book Award y el Bollingen Prize. Nemerov nació el 29 de febrero de 1920 en Nueva York ...
