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War stories : poems about long ago and now / Howard Nemerov

By:

Nemerov, Howard

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press , c1987.Description: ix, 60 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0226572439

Subject(s):

Poetry, American

DDC classification:

811 NEM

LOC classification:

PS3527.E5 W3 1987

Awards:

US Poet Laureate 1988-1990

Summary: 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.''

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	811 NEM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		015321

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

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