Word: nemerov
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Howard Nemerov, D.LET., poet and novelist...
THERE IS something Harvard steals from you; maybe it is whatever was once heroic in you, perhaps it is what was once honest. Whatever it is, once it is gone you have become like the First Minister in Howard Nemerov's Endor, who is told by the witch that men of his sort "though they have lives and deaths, never have fates." They "have their cleverness instead: their light, dry minds which blow in the wind of fortune...
...five-cent parody of The Advocate. While preparing the projected spoof, the fledgling editors discovered they could assemble enough competent poetry and prose to put out a serious magazine, whence The Island. The editors have consistently demonstrated sound judgement (and laudable enterprise in arranging interviews with W.H. Auden, Howard Nemerov, and Adrienne Rich). Their Winter issue is predictably excellent...
...Howard Nemerov's "Two Academic Poems" display great humor and great wit, respectively, though I do not think they would suffer from being printed as prose...
...reward or incentive for good behavior. St. Nick was long depicted as a scrawny saint who Carried presents in one hand and birch rods in the other. But the art of giving grows most difficult in this permanent holiday age of affluence, when, in the words of Poet Howard Nemerov, Santa Claus himself is an "overstuffed confidence man who climbs at night down chimneys, into dreams, with this world's goods...