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Trying Conclusions: New and Selected Poems, 1961-1991   Howard Nemerov
I first encountered Nemerov in the stacks of my high school library back in the 60s, and I have liked his poetry very much ever since. “To A Scholar in the Stacks” is a good example of what I love about his work, beautiful and intellectual. Some of the earliest poems in this collection seemed dated, and the newest poems reflect a world without depth. For national poetry month.