War stories : poems about long ago and now
Nemerov, Howard
War stories : poems about long ago and now / Howard Nemerov - Chicago : University of Chicago Press , c1987. - ix, 60 p. ; 21 cm.
This well-executed, satisfying collection focuses on Nemerov's experiences as a World War II fighter pilot: "The sweeping swallows low above the swale/ Among the insect victims as they rise/ To be picked off, and peace is satisfied.'' Reconsidered some 40 years later, his war resonates with irony: "That was the good war, the war we won/ As if there were no death, for goodness' sake.'' In fact, the sense of life "in transit'' animates most of these poems: "the world/ Flowing away the way it always does,/ As if it were made of time.'' His subjects range from the topical Halley's comet, the Shuttle disaster, to the personal, like his elegy for a student. At his best, Nemerov weds craft and vision to irony: "Though God be dead, he lived so far away/ His sourceless light continues to fall on us.''
US Poet Laureate 1988-1990
0226572439
87005097
Poetry, American
PS3527.E5 / W3 1987
811 NEM
War stories : poems about long ago and now / Howard Nemerov - Chicago : University of Chicago Press , c1987. - ix, 60 p. ; 21 cm.
This well-executed, satisfying collection focuses on Nemerov's experiences as a World War II fighter pilot: "The sweeping swallows low above the swale/ Among the insect victims as they rise/ To be picked off, and peace is satisfied.'' Reconsidered some 40 years later, his war resonates with irony: "That was the good war, the war we won/ As if there were no death, for goodness' sake.'' In fact, the sense of life "in transit'' animates most of these poems: "the world/ Flowing away the way it always does,/ As if it were made of time.'' His subjects range from the topical Halley's comet, the Shuttle disaster, to the personal, like his elegy for a student. At his best, Nemerov weds craft and vision to irony: "Though God be dead, he lived so far away/ His sourceless light continues to fall on us.''
US Poet Laureate 1988-1990
0226572439
87005097
Poetry, American
PS3527.E5 / W3 1987
811 NEM
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