The former Poet Laureate of the United States, Nemerov gives us a lucid and precise twist on the commonplaces of everyday life. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won both the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. "Howard Nemerov is a witty, urbane, thoughtful poet, grounded in the classics, a master of the craft. It is refreshing to read his work. . . . "— Minneapolis Tribune "The world causes in Nemerov a mingled revulsion and love, and a hopeless hope is the most attractive quality in his poems, which slowly turn obverse to reverse, seeing the permanence of change, the vices of virtue, the evanescence of solidities and the errors of truth."—Helen Vendler, New York Times Book Review Howard Nemerov has won the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov By Howard Nemerov The University of Chicago Press Copyright © 1977 Howard Nemerov All rights reserved. ISBN: 978-0-226-57259-8 Contents THE IMAGE AND THE LAW (1947), 1, Europe, The Frozen City, From a Record of Disappointment, The Truth of the Matter, Two Poems, The Stare of the Man from the Provinces, Portrait of Three Conspirators, The Triumph of Education, In the Glass of Fashion, Who Did Not Die in Vain, The Place of Value, Under the Bell Jar, The Master at a Mediterranean Port, Paraphrase from Notebooks, The Situation Does Not Change, 2, Observation of October, Metropolitan Sunday, Warning: Children at Play, Two Sides to an Outside: Meditation from Empson, A Morality, Epitaph on a Philosopher the Reports of Whose Death Have Been Grossly Minimized, The Baron Baedeker Blew His Nose and, Sighing, Departed, Crocodile at the Ancient Tombs, Glass Dialectic, Refusal of a Kindness Offered, A Chromium-plated Hat: Inlaid with Scenes from Siegfried, History of a Literary Movement, 3, Autumnal, For the Squadron, For W _______, Who Commanded Well, September Shooting, The Soldier Who Lived through the War, According to His Seasons, To the Memory of John Wheelwright, Anniversary, Lot's Wife, An Old Photograph, The Photograph of a Girl, On Reading "The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke", Sestina I, Sestina II, The Fortune Teller, Advice from the Holy Tomb, Unscientific Postscript, GUIDE TO THE RUINS (1950), Guide to the Ruins, The Second-Best Bed, A Poem of Margery Kempe, A Song of Degrees, On a Text: Jonah IV, xi, Nicodemus, To the Babylonians, Virgin and Martyr, Mars, Peace in Our Time, Song, The Bacterial War, Redeployment, To a Friend, Grand Central, with Soldiers, in Early Morning, A Fable of the War, The Hero Comes Home in His Hamper, and Is Exhibited at the World's Fair, The Brief Journey West, Succession, Fragment from Correspondence, Fables of the Moscow Subway, The Old Country, Trial and Death, a Double Feature, Sonnet, Carol, Sonnet at Easter, Elegy of Last Resort, Still Life I, Still Life II, Still Life III, The Lives of Gulls and Children, The Earthquake in the West, Praising the Poets of That Country, Madrigal, Four Sonnets, The Ecstasies of Dialectic, Antigone, Sonnet, A Lean and Hungry Look, The Phoenix, THE SALT GARDEN (1955), 1, Fall Song, The Winter Lightning, Zalmoxis, Dandelions, Midsummer's Day, The First Leaf, Sunday at the End of Summer, A Harvest Home, The Cuckoo King, The Pond, 2, The Scales of the Eyes, 3, The Salt Garden, The Sanctuary, The Gulls, I Only Am Escaped Alone to Tell Thee, The Goose Fish, 4, Dialectical Songs, Returning to Europe, Armistice, The Vacuum, Young Woman, Instructions for Use of This Toy, An Issue of Life, Dialogue, The Deposition, 5, The Snow Globe, An Old Picture, Central Park, The Quarry, Truth, The Market-Place, The Book of Kells, The Priest's Curse on Dancing, Sleeping Beauty, Deep Woods, MIRRORS AND WINDOWS (1958), 1, The Mirror, Trees, The Town Dump, The Sunglasses, Storm Windows, Shells, The Statues in the Public Gardens, A Day on the Big Branch, An Old Warplane, Sandpipers, A Clock with No Hands, 2, Lightning Storm on Fuji, Home for the Holidays, The Loon's Cry, Sunderland, Moses, Ahasuerus, Orphic Scenario, 3, The Wheel King, Distraction, False Solomon's Seal, The Murder of William Remington, The Old Soldiers' Home, Suburban Prophecy, A Primer of the Daily Round, Epigrams, The Fourth of July, Reflexions on the Seizure of the Suez, Seven Macabre Songs, A Singular Metamorphosis, Lore, Drama, Tale, Endegeeste, Moonshine, Canossa, Student Dies in 100 Yard Dash, 4, Maia, Cloud Seeding, The Map-Maker on His Art, Brainstorm, Limits, To Lu Chi, Art Song, Writing, Painting a Mountain Stream, Sarabande, Steps for a Dancer, The Dancer's Reply, Holding the Mirror Up to Nature, NEW POEMS (1960), Moment, Runes, On Certain Wits, To H. M., Maestria, Going Away, Life Cycle of Common Man, Boom!, Mrs. Mandrill, T