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- <text id=91TT1580>
- <title>
- July 15, 1991: Died:Howard Nemerov
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
- July 15, 1991 Misleading Labels
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 61
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- <p> DIED. Howard Nemerov, 71, Pulitzer-prize-winning poet and
- former U.S. poet laureate; of cancer; in St. Louis. A World War
- II combat pilot, Nemerov went on to write 30 books, including
- novels and short stories. In 1978 his Collected Poems won both
- a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Known as a very
- private man, he explained that "if you're a word slinger for a
- living, teaching and writing, when you get to be alone you like
- it to be quiet."
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