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    Sentences
    Sentences
    Sentences
    Ebook87 pages35 minutes

    Sentences

    By Howard Nemerov

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    In this dazzling collection, Nemerov plays with other forms of poetry, including gnomic verse, sonnets, and lyrics. 'Sentences' reverberates with imaginative approaches to poetry, and the subject matters are equally varied. Poems, such as 'A Christmas Storm,' and 'By Al Leibowitz's Pool' are both charming and fantastic examples of the author's ability with words. Shot through with his trademark sense of the satirical, 'Sentences' is a must for Nemerov fans, and for those looking for an introduction to his work. -
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSAGA Egmont
    Release dateJan 18, 2023
    ISBN9788728365755
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      Sentences - Howard Nemerov

      Howard Nemerov

      Sentences

      SAGA Egmont

      Sentences

      Cover image: Shutterstock

      Copyright © 1980, 2023 Howard Nemerov and SAGA Egmont

      All rights reserved

      ISBN: 9788728365755

      1st ebook edition

      Format: EPUB 3.0

      No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrievial system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher, nor, be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than in which it is published and without a similar condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

      www.sagaegmont.com

      Saga is a subsidiary of Egmont. Egmont is Denmark’s largest media company and fully owned by the Egmont Foundation, which donates almost 13,4 million euros annually to children in difficult circumstances.

      for M again, and more than ever now

      The Unexpected Snow was first published in a limited edition by the Narwhal Press.

      The author wishes also to record his gratitude to Mrs. M. P. Wirthlin for devising and/or discovering the order of the poems.

      1 Beneath

      Literature

      Is in good hands, it is being written

      By liberated sex-maniacs, psychologists

      With an eye to higher things, and novelists

      Convinced they are psychiatric social-workers

      With a mission to the slums of the human heart;

      It is being written by disgraced politicians

      From the safety of minimum-security prisons

      With pastel walls affording them protection from

      The lower class of criminal while they write

      Of finding Jesus, Who has given them

      The hundred thousand dollar advance against

      The major motion picture soon to be made;

      And now new generations of trained chimpanzees

      Are manning their machines, moving their lips,

      Coming along slowly, all thumbs and unopposable.

      The Serial

      The last year’s phone books lying in the rain

      With other garbage to be taken away

      Are obsolescing programs that contain

      The dramatis personae of a play

      So vast its purposes and plot

      Go ramifying out of mortal sight

      In intricate radiations, rise and rot;

      Here lie the yellow pages and the white,

      Going concerns and bankrupt, where the dead

      Hide with the living in the book of life,

      The slowly moving serial unread

      Whose singles with the husband and the wife

      Are persons parted, who as they leave the stage

      Get quietly stood in for, page by

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