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Book SynopsisJudiciously selected and introduced by poet Daniel Anderson, The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov represents the broad spectrum of Nemerov’s virtues as a poet—his intelligence, his wit, his compassion, and his irreverence.
Trade Review“More than a decade after his death, this book is intended to represent the range of Howard Nemerov’s virtues as a poet-his wry wit, his attentive eye, his capacity for marking ‘the before unapprehended relations of things.’ In this collection also are some of the most resonant and authoritative iambic lines written in American poetry in the second half of the twentieth century.”
“What the reader will find here is a struggle in which the aesthetic triumph of Nemerov's poetry renames and thus reorders the threats of scientific materialism and a century of unprecedented violence. The drama here is nothing less than that of the human spirit pitted against human experience.”
“Will help readers get beyond the seeming congenital bitterness, beyond the glow of collegial reminiscence, to a rrive at Nemerov's true virtues as a poet.” * The New York Times *
“It is the prompting of a passionate intellect that leads him to write, the drive of a mind devoted to a set of ideas both irreducible and endlessly applicable.” * The Nation *
