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Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
Howard Nemerov
Born: February 29, 1920
Died: July 5, 1991 (aged 71)
Bio: Howard Nemerov was an American poet. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990.
Known for:
- The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977)
- Journal of the fictive life (1965)
- War Stories: Poems about Long Ago and Now (1987)
- Trying Conclusions (1991)
- The melodramatists (1949)
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