Howard Nemerov

Former Poet Laureate of the United States.  One of America’s finest.  Subtle, smooth, almost  hypnotic.  He sneaks up over your shoulder, past intellectual barriers and feeds the world some “Biggie-size” imagery and meaning.  He received the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize for The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov. He was brother to photographer Diane Nemerov Arbus and father to art historian Alexander Nemerov, Professor of the History of Art and American Studies at Yale University.

This is one of our favorite Nemerov:

Because You Asked About The Line Between Prose And Poetry

Sparrows were feeding in a freezing drizzle
That while you watched turned into pieces of snow
Riding a gradient invisible
From silver aslant to random, white, and slow.

There came a moment that you couldn’t tell.
And then they clearly flew instead of fell.

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