Journal of the Fictive Life
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, (1965).
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with rubbing to the rear panel and corners. Signed by the author. Although not marked as such, this copy was owned by 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 dedicatee of *The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov*.
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Howard Nemerov
birth name: Howard Nemerov
born: 3/1/1920
died: 7/5/1991
Biography
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