Howard Nemerov: Poems Howard Nemerov

Poetry collections

• The Image and the Law (1947)
• Guide to the Ruins (1950)
• The Vacuum (1955)
• The Salt Garden (1955)
• Mirrors and Windows (1958)
• The Next Room of The Dream: Poems and Two Plays (1962)
• The Blue Swallows (1967)
• The Winter Lightning: Selected Poems (1968)
• Gnomes & Occasions: Poems (1973) University of Chicago Press ISBN 0-226-57252-8
• The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977) ISBN 978-0-226-57259-8 — winner of the National Book Award, Pulitzer Prize, and Bollingen Prize
• Sentences (1980) ISBN 978-0-226-57262-8
• Inside the Onion (1984) ISBN 0-226-57244-7
• War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now (1987) ISBN 978-0-226-57243-7
• Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991 (1992) ISBN 978-0-226-57263-5
• Grace to be Said at the Supermarket
• The War in the Air

Prose

• The Melodramatists (1949)
• Federigo: Or the Power of Love (1954)
• The Homecoming Game (1957)
• The Commodity of Dreams and Other Stories (1959)
• Journal of the Fictive Life (1965) ISBN 978-0-226-57261-1
• Stories, Fables and Other Diversions (1971)

Literary scholarship

• The Oak in the Acorn: On Remembrance of Things Past and on Teaching Proust, Who Will Never Learn (1987) ISBN 978-0-8071-1385-1