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Howard Nemerov

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Howard Nemerov


Born
New York City, The United States

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Average rating: 4.13 · 3,970 ratings · 397 reviews · 107 distinct works
The Collected Poems
4.13 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions
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Inside the Onion
4.03 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1984 — 4 editions
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Figures of Thought: Specula...
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1978 — 9 editions
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Sentences
4.11 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions
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The Blue Swallows
3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1967 — 7 editions
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War Stories: Poems about Lo...
3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions
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New and Selected Poems
3.94 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 1960 — 8 editions
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The Next Room of the Dream:...
3.18 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1962 — 9 editions
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Trying Conclusions: New and...
3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions
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Four Hundred Years of Gun C...
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions
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“Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.”
― Howard Nemerov
tags: humor, knowledge, literature, writing
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“Absolute power corrupts absolutely; and if you surrender your personal responsibility to a government which promises to take care of you, they will only take care of themselves.”
― Howard Nemerov
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“[T]eaching has been for me an education (Lord knows what it has been for my students).”
― Howard Nemerov
tags: education, teaching
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