← Howard NemerovThe Blue Swallowsby Howard NemerovPoems on mortality, nature, and the flight of swallowsFind on Amazon↗About the authorHoward NemerovAmerican poet, novelist, and critic who served as Poet Laureate. His Collected Poems won both the Pulitzer and National Book Award in 1978. His verse is noted for its wit and philosophical skepticism.More by Howard NemerovThe Image and the Law→Mirrors and WindowsPoems on reflection, perception, and the divided self→Gnomes and OccasionsWitty formal poems on circumstance and human finitude→Collected PoemsComplete selected poems of Nemerov's philosophical verse→