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The Powers of Heaven and Earth: New and Selected Poems

by John Frederick Nims
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780807128268
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: LSU Press
  • Publisher Imprint: LSU Press
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  • Pages: 247
  • Original Price: USD 35.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 540 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): American / General

Among the papers of the late John Frederick Nims was a group of poems selected by the poet from his more than sixty-year career. The Powers of Heaven and Earth presents that choice verse--generous portions from the eight superbly varied and beautifully crafted collections Nims published between 1947 and 1990. In addition, this incomparably rich volume includes thirty new poems published during Nims's last decade.

Rhythmically precise yet delightfully playful, Nims's work bestows on readers those qualities of mind and heart well known to colleagues, students, and friends--his wit, lightly carried erudition, and generosity of spirit. From first to last, there is no falling off. Nims's irrepressible joy in his work constantly illuminates the verse collected here, joining together a lifetime of keen observation with speculation on the nature of eternity.

John Frederick Nims (1913-1999) was the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Six-Cornered Snowflake, Zany in Denim, and Knowledge of the Evening. He also translated several books of verse, most recently The Complete Poems of Michelangelo, and wrote the highly acclaimed Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry. Long affiliated with the magazine Poetry, he was its editor from 1978 to 1984, and he taught at many distinguished universities and workshops in America and abroad. Among the numerous honors he received for his work are the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award in Literature, the Aiken-Taylor Award, the O. B. Hardison Award, and the Harriet Monroe Memorial Prize.

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