Children, to be illustrious is sad.
Howard Nemerov Quotes
supposed to talk about bLanguage is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
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| Birth: | 29th February, 1920 |
| Death: | 5th July, 1991 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
Howard Nemerov was born in New York City, New York, USA. He was an American poet. Nemerov's numerous collections of poetry include: The Image and the Law, Guide to the Ruins, The Vacuum, The Salt Garden, Mirrors and Windows, The Blue Swallows, The Winter Lightning, The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov(won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Bollingen Prize), Inside the Onion, War Stories, Trying Conclusions, and The War in the Air. He began teaching, first at Hamilton College and later at Bennington College, Brandeis University, and finally Washington University in St. Louis. He received many awards and honors include: National Medal of Arts, St. Louis Literary Award, and the first Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. In 1990, he was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.
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