Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov, Poet Laureate of the United States, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award, and Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, was one of the most prolific and significant American poets of the twentieth century. By the time of his death in 1991, he had published fourteen collections of poetry.

This collection of the most beloved and brilliant poems from Howard Nemerov's fruitful career also introduces twenty-three new poems in a section entitled "Trying Conclusions." Written during his tenure as the nation's Poet Laureate, these new poems are imbued with vivid intelligence, an irreverent sense of humor, and masterful wit--trademarks of the Nemerov legacy.

A collection of some seventy verses, this volume includes some of the richest and most significant poems of a contemporary master.

"Originated in the Voice of America 'Forum' series."--Jacket.

Poems, and the verse plays on Biblical subjects "Endor" and "Cain."

Fourteen short stories, some of a grotesque nature.