SOURCE: Skinner, John F. “Semantic Play in the Poetry of Howard Nemerov.” Literature in Performance: A Journal of Literary and Performing Art 6 (April 1986): 44-59.
In the following essay, Skinner examines the various manifestations of game-playing and word play in Nemerov's poetry.
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