Nemerov

American  

[nem-uh-rawf, ‑-rof] / ˈnɛm əˌrɔf, ‑ˌrɒf /

noun

1. Howard, 1920–91, U.S. poet, novelist, and essayist: U.S. poet laureate 1988–90.

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Example Sentences

However, as Stanford art historian Alexander Nemerov has sharply observed, the damage recorded in Hine’s entrancing photograph was inflicted at least as much on the young girl’s soul as on her body.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2025

“Her presence must have remained,” Nemerov writes, “because I believe I knew of her before I ever said a word.”

From Washington Post • Mar. 17, 2021

In 1977, the poet Howard Nemerov described the eerie sense that the gingko appeared to drop its leaves as if through some hidden natural command:

From Slate • Nov. 17, 2018

But not Ryan, who has studied Nemerov at length, and knows deep down he’s not a hard-liner.

From New York Times • Aug. 22, 2018

Here, in a rambling, crooked house in North Bennington, they raised four children and became the center of a social set that included Howard Nemerov, Ralph Ellison, Bernard Malamud, and Walter Bernstein.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 10, 2016