Judiciously 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.
Howard Nemerov (1920–1991) grew up in New York City, earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, and flew combat missions for the Royal Canadian Air Force and the U.S. Army. He published novels, short stories, criticism, and poetry.
Author of January Rain, winner of the Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, and the collection of poetry Drunk in Sunlight, Daniel Anderson is currently the Kenan Visiting Writer at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
"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)
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