Poets on Poetry

New York: Basic Books, (1966).

Price: $200.00

Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with light wear at the edges. Signed by Nemerov and with the ownership signature of Elbert Lenrow, a professor at the New School who taught Nemerov, along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg. He later penned a book about his friendship with Kerouac and was a dedicatee of *The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov*. A nice association.

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Item #408016 Poets on Poetry. Howard NEMEROV.

Howard Nemerov
birth name: Howard Nemerov
born: 3/1/1920
died: 7/5/1991

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American poet, novelist, and critic whose poetry, marked by irony and self-deprecatory wit, is often about nature. In 1978 Nemerov received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov, which appeared in 1977. Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore