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Howard Nemerov (1920-1991)
Because You Asked About the Line
Between Prose and Poetry
First Line:
Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle.
Nemerov was awarded the National Book Award for
Poetry and Pulitzer prize for Poetry in 1978, and the
Bollingen Prize for Poetry in 1981. He was Consultant
in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1963 to
1964 and was reappointed as Poet Laureate of the
United States from 1988 to 1990.
The above poem appeared is protected by copyright
and cannot be displayed without permission of the
copyright holder. It can be found in:
Bowen, Retta, Nick Temple, Nicholas
Alberry, and
Stephanie Weinreich, eds. Poem A Day: Volume 3.
Hanover, New Hampshire: Steelforth Press, 2003.
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