Howard Nemerov (1920-1991): One of the most prolific and respected American poets of the twentieth century. From 1942 to 1944 he served with the Royal Canadian Air Force, and afterward with the US Army Air Forces as a bomber pilot until the end of the war. A graduate of Harvard, he later became a Poet Laureate of the United States, and earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1978. Throughout his work, he engaged his readers with the genius of an unwavering intelligence.