War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now - Hardcover

Nemerov, Howard

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9780226572420: War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now

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ISBN 10: 0226572420 ISBN 13: 9780226572420

Publisher: University of Chicago Press, 1987

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The Afterlife
All Things Made New For Now
At Sixties And Seventies
Authorities
The Biographer's Mandate
The Bluejay And The Mockingbird
The Celestial Emperor
A Christmas Card Of Halley's Comet
Commencement
Crotchets
D-day + All The Years
Double Negative
Drowning The Book
Economic Man
The Faith
Fellowship
Found Poem
Freezing The Rain
Happy Hour
Iff
In The Beginning
In Transit
Intimations
Landscape With Self-portrait
Low-level Cross-country
Models
More Joy In Heaven
Night Operations, Coastal Command Raf
Night Piece
On An Occaision Of National Mourning
On Reading King Lear Again, 1984
Parabola
Playing The Machine
A Reader Of Mysteries
Remembering The Way
The Royal Visit
The Shadow Side
The Shopping Mall, The Moral Law
Theater Of The Absurd
To Dante
To Joy Our Student, Bidding Adieu
To Peter Raven On His Fiftieth Birthday
Two Person %zero-sum
Ultima Ratio Reagan
The War In The Air
World Lines; A War Story
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

From Library Journal:

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 topicalHalley's comet, the Shuttle disasterto 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." For contemporary collections. Robert Hudzik, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
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