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'''Howard Nemerov''' ([[February 29]], [[1920]] – [[July 5]], [[1991]]) was [[United States]] [[Poet Laureate]] [[1963]]-[[1964]] and [[1988]]-[[1990]]. "The Collected Poems" won [[National Book Award]] and [[Pulitzer Prize]]. He was brother to [[photographer]] [[Diane Arbus|Diane Nemerov Arbus]].
Nemerov was awarded the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, a Guggenheim fellowship, and the first Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. He was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distringuished University Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.
His work is considered part of the formalist tradition, and he has written almost exclusively in fixed forms and meter. However, while he is known for his meticulousness and technique, his work also has a reputation for being witty and playful. He is often compared to [[John Hollander]], [[Phillip Larkin]], and [[Richard Wilbur]].
== Poetry ==
"A Primer for the Daily Round" is his most frequently anthologized poem, and highly representative of Nemerov's poetic style. It is an archetypal Elizabethan sonnet, demonstrative of the prosodic creativity for which Nemerov is famous.
"A Primer for the Daily Round"
::"A peels an apple, while B kneels to God,"
::"C telephones to D, who has a hand"
::"On E's knee, F coughs, G turns up the sod"
::"For H's grave, I do not understand"
::"But J is bringing one clay pigeon down"
::"While K brings down a nightstick on L's head,"
::"And M takes mustard, N drives into town,"
::"O goes to bed with P, and Q drops dead,"
::"R lies to S, but happens to be heard"
::"By T, who tells U not to fire V"
::"For having to give W the word"
::"That X is now deceiving Y with Z,"
::" Who happens just now to remember A"
::" Peeling an apple somewhere far away."
==External links==
* [http://www.poets.org/poets/poets.cfm?prmID=226 Nemerov Biographical Sketch]
* [http://www.loc.gov/poetry/laureate-1961-1970.html Poet Lauriete Timeline: 1961-1970]
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Howard Nemerov was born on March 1, 1920, in New York City. His parents were David and Gertrude (Russek) Nemerov.
The elder Nemerov's talents and interests extended to art connoisseurship, painting, and philanthropy--talents and interests undoubtedly influential upon his son.Young Howard was raised in a sophisticated New York City environment where he attended the Society for Ethical Culture's Fieldstone School. Graduated in 1937 as an outstanding student and second string team football fullback, he commenced studies at Harvard University where, in 1940, he was Bowdoin Essayist and he received bachelor's degree at this university. Throughout World War II, he served as a pilot in the Royal Canadian unit of the U. S. Army Air Force. He married in 1944, and after the war, having earned the rank of first lieutenant, returned to New York with his wife to complete his first book. He then began teaching, first at Hamilton College and later at Bennington College, Brandeis University, and Washington University, where he was Distinguished Poet in Residence from 1969 until his death.
Nemerov's numerous collections of poetry include Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (University of Chicago Press, 1991); The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), which won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize; The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems (1968); Mirrors and Windows (1958); The Salt Garden (1955); and The Image of the Law (1947). His novels have also been commended; they include The Homecoming Game (1957), Federigo: Or the Power of Love (1954), and The Melodramatists (1949). Nemerov received many awards and honors, among them fellowships from The Academy of American Poets and The Guggenheim Foundation, a National Endowment for the Arts grant, and the National Medal of the Arts. He served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress in 1963 and 1964, as a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets beginning in 1976, and as poet laureate of the United States from 1988 to 1990. Nemerov died of cancer in 1991 in University City, Missouri.
A Selected Bibliography
Poetry
Mirrors and Windows (1958)
The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977)
The Image of the Law (1947)
The Salt Garden (1955)
The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems (1968)
Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (1991)
Prose
Federigo: Or the Power of Love (1954)
The Homecoming Game (1957)
The Melodramatists (1949
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