Poetry Books by Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book A Commodity of Dreams & Other Stories Authors: Howard Nemerov
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Published Date: 1959
Categories: Autographs
Fourteen short stories, some of a grotesque nature.

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book Tall Story Authors: Howard Lindsay, Russel Crouse
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Published Date: 1960
Categories: Drama
THE STORY: Thanks to the phenomenal success of its basketball team Custer College has suddenly sprung into national prominence. Alumni contributions have tripled, the building program is in high gear and academic standards have been raised--largely

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book The Homecoming Game Authors: Howard Nemerov
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Published Date: 1957
Categories: Fiction
When Charles Osman, history professor at a small-town college, has the audacity to flunk Raymond Blent, the football team's star running back, on the eve of the homecoming game, it is the beginning of a chain reaction that upsets a football game and a good many people besides.Osman is coaxed--even threatened--by students, college administrators, alumni, and townspeople to change the failing grade. But all is not as it seems. Blent has his own reasons for not wanting to play in the game. When Osman falls in love with Blent's charming young girlfriend, matters really start to heat up!

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book Four Hundred Years of Gun Control Authors: Howard Nemerov
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Published Date: 2008
Categories: Political Science
Investigative analyst Nemerov compares the rhetoric and the legislation to the reality of how gun control's promises and laws have come to affect real people.

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book The Melodramatists Authors: Howard Nemerov
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Published Date: 1992
Categories: Fiction
While their wealthy father is away from his Boston home, his daughters create havoc; Susan carries on an affair with her psychiatrist and is blackmailed by the butler, and Claire turns the third floor into a rehabilitation center for prostitutes

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book Sentences Authors: Howard Nemerov
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published Date: 1983-02-15
Categories: Poetry
Diverse poems, epigrams, and riddles deal with mortality, the natural world, reality versus art, and the nature of poetry

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book Journal of the Fictive Life Authors: Howard Nemerov
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published Date: 1981-07-01
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
A writer's journal analyzes the creative process and the relationship between dreams and the imagination

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book War Stories Authors: Howard Nemerov
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published Date: 1990-12-17
Categories: Poetry
Poems deal with history, loss, combat, royalty, politics, sacrifice, grief, biographies, the theater, and reading

Howard Nemerov Books, Howard Nemerov poetry book A Howard Nemerov Reader Authors: Howard Nemerov
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published Date: 1993-09
Categories: Literary Criticism
"Although known primarily as a poet, Howard Nemerov has distinguished himself as a critic, short story writer, novelist, and poet. With nearly four dozen poems including two that have not yet been collected, eight stories, fourteen essays, and one complete novel, A Howard Nemerov Reader represents the career of one of America's most distinguished men of letters."--Publishers website.



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