Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 – July 5, 1991) was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry,Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize.

Nemerov was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at Stanford University.

Biography

Born on Leap Day in New York City, his parents were David Nemerov and Gertrude. The Nemerovs were a Russian Jewish couple who lived in New York City and owned Russek's, a famous Fifth Avenue department store. His younger sister was the photographer Diane Arbus. The elder Nemerov's talents and interests extended to art connoisseurship, painting, philanthropy, and photography — talents and interests undoubtedly influential upon his son. Young Howard was raised in a sophisticated New York City environment where he attended the Society for Ethical Culture's Fieldston School. Graduated in 1937 as an outstanding student and second string team football fullback, he commenced studies at Harvard University where, in 1940, he was Bowdoin Essayist and he received bachelor's degree at this university. Throughout World War II, he served as a pilot, first in the Royal Canadian Air Force and later the U. S. Army Air Forces. He married in 1944, and after the war, having earned the rank of first lieutenant, returned to New York with his wife to complete his first book.

Famous quotes by Howard Nemerov:

"The secrets of success are a good wife and a steady job. My wife told me."

"Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose?"

"Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow's speed."

"I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants."

"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application / why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."

"The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape from death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present - henceforth? - the subject to which you are condemned."

"Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated."

"Language cares."

"I have a plot, but not much happens."

"I am not at all clear what free verse is anymore. That's one of the things you learn not to know."

"I think there's one thing which distinguishes our art - we don't consider. We don't think. We write a little verse because it comes to us."

"Shakespeare tells the same stories over and over in so many guises that it takes a long time before you notice."

"I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem."

"Mostly the thought and the verse come inseparably. In my poem Poetics, it's as close as I come to telling how I do it."

"Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful."

"It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page."

"When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do."

"For a Jewish Puritan of the middle class, the novel is serious, the novel is work, the novel is conscientious application why, the novel is practically the retail business all over again."

"I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow."

"History is one of those marvelous and necessary illusions we have to deal with. It's one of the ways of dealing with our world with impossible generalities which we couldn't live without."

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Over 100 nude women pose against Donald Trump in Cleveland

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CLEVELAND. More than a hundred women stripped and posed naked with mirrors in Cleveland, answering a photographer's call to blend art with politics and portray Donald Trump as unfit for the White House ... "He is a loser," photographer Spencer Tunick told AFP after the sunrise shoot in which 130 women took part. One hundred of them will be featured in the picture to be unveiled shortly before the November 8 election ... RELATED....

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MPs Overwhelmingly Back Renewal of UK's Trident Nuclear Weapons System

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MPs, by an overwhelming 472 to 117 vote, backed the renewal of the UK’s Trident nuclear weapons system in Parliament, BBC News reported Monday.The vote approves the construction of four replacement submarines at an estimated cost of £31bn ... "Nuclear weapons are here, they are not going to disappear," he said. "It is the role of government to make sure we can defend ourselves against them."....

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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses a meeting in Ankara, Turkey

U.S. Ambassador To Turkey John Bass Categorically Denies US Role In Failed Coup

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U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass admonished Turkish President Recep Erdogan for suggesting the United States is harboring a terrorist he claims is responsible for last Friday’s failed military coup, ABC News reported Monday. "Some news reports – and, unfortunately, some public figures – have speculated that the United States in some way supported the coup attempt....

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Rep. Steve Womack, R-Ark., tests out the gavel during a sound check before the opening session of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016.

Republican Leaders Turn Aside Dissent From Anti-Trump Forces As Convention Opens

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Despite dissent from anti-Donald Trump forces, Republican Party leaders approved rules for the convention and rejected a demand for a state-by-state roll call vote Monday, all but sealing Trump’s fate as the party standard-bearer this fall, The Associated Press reported.With hundreds of socially conservative delegates opposed to nominating the New York real estate mogul, presiding officer, Arkansas GOP Rep....

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Taylor Swift defends herself in latest salvo in Kanye battle

Edit NZ Herald 18 Jul 2016

NEW YORK (AP) " In the latest installment of the beef between Taylor Swift, Kanye West and his wife, Kim Kardashian, Kardashsian posted video on Snapchat on Sunday of an old call between West and Swift in which West appears to tell... ....

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Destiny Howard looks at a giant animated bear on a float that will appear in the Days of '47 Parade during a preview party Monday at the South Towne Expo Center in Sandy. Participants were able to vote for their favorite float for the "People's Choice" or the "Children's Choice" award. The preview party continues 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Tuesday ... Monday, July 25. The route starts at South Temple and State Street, then runs east to 200 East ... ....

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Usually, when an ex-London mayor compares someone to Hitler he only has to justify himself to the newts in his garden pond ... And once by Michael Howard for making up that he wasn’t having an affair ... Read more....

Donald Trump's childhood home is for sale

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Republican U.S ... The house “will automatically become a historic site” if Trump becomes president, Howard Kaminowitz, an associate broker with Laffey Fine Homes who is listing the property, told Newsday ... Read the original article on The Real Deal. Copyright 2016 ... ....

President Erdogan: Ready to reinstate the death penalty

Edit Al Jazeera 19 Jul 2016

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he's ready to reinstate the death penalty if the Turkish people demand it and parliament approves the necessary legislation ... Parliament is expected to meet on Wednesday to discuss the issue ... Turkey ... Howard Eissenstat of St Lawrence University told Al Jazeera the president doesn't appear concerned about following the dictates of the West post-coup attempt ... Source. Al Jazeera and agencies ... ....