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Title

The powers of heaven and earth : new and selected poems / John Frederick Nims.

Author

Nims, John Frederick, 1913-1999.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

xiv, 247 pages; 23 cm

Contents

• The Mouse -- The Powers of Heaven and Earth -- Julianne-Julienne -- Pascal on Ultrasound -- Celebrating a Birthday -- Love's Progress -- The Opera -- The Silence -- Love and Other Wonders -- Till News of You -- A Memory of Places -- Time's Arrow -- Worth in the World -- The Seizure -- Rilke Surmised -- Strange! -- Explicating "The Necromancers" -- The Only Text -- Impervious -- Timepiece -- The Day Our Dog Died -- Love's Bittersweet -- The Beautiful Atheist -- Scientist's Morning Prayer -- Porno People -- Cosi -- Moses Descending -- The Bathrobe -- As in a Play by Dekker -- Found Poem: Understanding the Universe -- Freight -- Cultural Heritage -- Tandaradei! -- Men's Room: The Ritz -- Trivia -- "Light" Verse -- Etymology -- Cajolery -- You Pious People -- Horace, Ode I, 4 -- Horace, Ode I, 5 -- Catullus, XVII -- Catullus, XXV -- Giacomo Leopardi, "L'infinito" -- Goethe, "Die schone Nacht" -- Rosalia de Castro, "Cando Penso Que Te Fuches ... " --
• Dollar Bill -- Penny Arcade -- The Genuine Ellis -- Magazine Stand -- Madrigal in Wartime -- Scherzo: Writers' Conference, 1941 -- New Year's Eve -- Prayer -- Parting: 1940 -- Love Poem -- Midwest -- Christmas Tree -- Trainwrecked Soldiers -- Sign of Fever -- The Masque of Blackness -- The Indolent Day -- City Dawn -- The Bright Night of the Soul -- Watcher Go Deftly -- First Date -- Japanese Prints -- Incident -- Winter in the Park -- Vicarage Blues -- Two Cretan Views -- Portrait -- The Child -- Christmas -- Adam's Ballad -- The Evergreen -- Dead Child -- The Young Ionia -- Decline and Fall -- The Lover -- Polonaise -- Parallax at Djebel-Muta -- Etruscan Tomb -- Roman Letter -- Florence -- Reflections in Venice -- A Frieze of Cupids -- Originated in a Chorus of Satyrs -- Ancient of Days -- And a Fortune in Olive Oil -- Affair at the Fork -- Calliope to Clio -- Ishtar -- A Pretty Device of the Fathers -- Natione non Moribus -- The Academy Disporting --
• Isaiah's Coal -- Last Judgment -- De Fide -- Old River Road -- Conclusion -- Few Things to Say -- Days of Our Years -- At Dawn -- Love -- Parting -- Contemplation -- Anacreon's Answer -- Protestation -- Epitaph for a Light Lady -- With Fingering Hand -- Avant-garde -- Visiting Poet -- Transplant -- View from Moon -- Philosopher -- Minotaur -- Embroidery at Bayeux -- Sophomore -- On the One Theme Still -- Love and Death -- The Visit -- Lovers -- Perfect Rhyme -- The Observatory Ode -- Cardiological -- Tide Turning -- Postcard from Minnesota -- Slapstick I -- Dawn Song -- Plaza de Toros -- The Year, 1520 -- Sonnet Almost Petrarchan -- Design: A Further Word -- With a Blonde in a Bar-Booth -- A Ballad of Kisses and Combs -- How to Tell the Girls from the Flowers -- A Scholar Wonders -- Stewardess Falls from Plane -- Daughter, Age 4 -- Sally and Alison: Julie, And Joan -- The Madness in Vermont This Fall -- Love among the Philosophers -- Spleen --
• A Summer Love -- Watching the Planes Come in at La Guardia -- First Date (2) -- The Origin of Myth -- Love Song for Outer Space -- Finisterre -- The Consolations of Etymology, with Fanfare -- The Book of Life -- As Goethe Said -- Lunch with Old Flame -- Ragdale Haiku -- Crutches and Canes -- Matthew 5:28 -- Disciples -- Good Friday -- Poets and Critics -- Verse Translator -- Occasions of Grace at a Poetry Reading -- The Six-Cornered Snowflake -- Gravity -- The Shape of Leaves -- Trick or Treat -- From the Rapido: La Spezia-Genova -- Water Music -- Dropping the Names -- The Wine of Astonishment -- Hospital Breakfast: With Grace After -- Elegy -- Keeping Change -- Palinode -- Niagara -- Closed for Restoration.

ISBN

• 0807128279 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0807128260

LCCN

2002030055

OCLC

• ocm50292687
• SCSB-4310293

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries