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War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now
by Nemerov, Howard
- Used
- Paperback
- Signed
- Condition
- Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Some corners creased. Small edge tear at page 31/32.
- ISBN 10
- 0226572439
- ISBN 13
- 9780226572437
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 1989. Paperback Edition, Second printing. Trade paperback. Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Some corners creased. Small edge tear at page 31/32.. ix, 60 p. "These new poems of Howard Nemerov are the poems of a master at his best. What is more, they are accessible. They speak out in a beautiful unclouded voice of the experience of a flyer of the Second World War. Although as 'war poems' they take their place among the best of that genre, they resonate far beyond their history with an arresting immediacy. "--Karl Shapiro. At the time this was published, Nemerov has authored 26 works, eight volumes of his poerty had been published by the University of Chicago PRess. The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov won the National Book Award and the Pulitizer Prize in 1978. He served on the faculty as Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 63649
- Title
- War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now
- Author
- Nemerov, Howard
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good. No dust jacket as issued. Signed by author. Some corners creased. Small edge tear at page 31/32.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Paperback Edition, Second printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226572439
- ISBN 13
- 9780226572437
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, IL
- Date Published
- 1989
- Keywords
- War, Students, Ronald Reagan, National Mourning, Happy Hour, Shopping Mall, Fellowship, Bluejay, Mockingbird, Night Operations, Coastal Command, RAF, D-Day, Afterlife, Peter Raven, Halley's Comet, Self-Portrait, Zero-Sum, King Lear, Dante, Low-Level
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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