The Powers of Heaven and Earth
, by Nims, John FrederickNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780807128268 | 0807128260
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 9/1/2002
John Frederick Nims (1913-1999) was the author of eight collections of 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
New Poems | |
The Mouse | p. 3 |
The Powers of Heaven and Earth | p. 4 |
Julianne-julienne | p. 8 |
Pascal on Ultrasound | p. 9 |
Celebrating a Birthday | p. 10 |
Love's Progress | p. 11 |
The Opera | p. 12 |
The Silence | p. 13 |
Love and Other Wonders | p. 14 |
Till News of You | p. 16 |
A Memory of Places | p. 17 |
Time's Arrow | p. 18 |
Worth in the World | p. 19 |
The Seizure | p. 20 |
Rilke Surmised | p. 21 |
Strange! | p. 22 |
Explicating "The Necromancers" | p. 23 |
The Only Text | p. 25 |
Impervious | p. 26 |
Timepiece | p. 27 |
The Day Our Dog Died | p. 28 |
Love's Bittersweet | p. 28 |
The Beautiful Atheist | p. 29 |
Scientist's Morning Prayer | p. 30 |
Porno People | p. 30 |
Cosi | p. 31 |
Moses Descending | p. 32 |
Three Simple Sonnets | |
The Bathrobe | p. 33 |
As in a Play by Dekker | p. 33 |
Found Poem: Understanding the Universe | p. 34 |
Freight | p. 35 |
Epigrams | |
Cultural Heritage | p. 39 |
Tandaradei! | p. 39 |
Men's Room: The Ritz | p. 39 |
Trivia | p. 39 |
"Light" Verse | p. 40 |
Etymology | p. 40 |
Cajolery | p. 40 |
You Pious People | p. 40 |
New Translations | |
Horace, Ode I, 4 | p. 41 |
Horace, Ode I, 5 | p. 42 |
Catullus, XVII | p. 43 |
Catullus, XXV | p. 45 |
Giacomo Leopardi, "L'Infinito" | p. 46 |
Goethe, "Die schone Nacht" | p. 47 |
Rosalia de Castro, "Cando Penso Que Te Fuches ..." | p. 48 |
from Five Young American Poets, 1944 | |
Dollar Bill | p. 51 |
Penny Arcade | p. 52 |
The Genuine Ellis | p. 53 |
Magazine Stand | p. 55 |
Madrigal in Wartime | p. 56 |
Scherzo: Writers' Conference, 1941 | p. 57 |
New Year's Eve | p. 58 |
Prayer | p. 60 |
Parting: 1940 | p. 61 |
from The Iron Pastoral, 1947 | |
Love Poem | p. 65 |
Midwest | p. 66 |
Christmas Tree | p. 67 |
Trainwrecked Soldiers | p. 68 |
Sign of Fever | p. 70 |
from A Fountain in Kentucky, 1950 | |
The Masque of Blackness | p. 73 |
The Indolent Day | p. 79 |
City Dawn | p. 80 |
The Bright Night of the Soul | p. 81 |
Watcher Go Deftly | p. 83 |
First Date | p. 84 |
Japanese Prints | p. 85 |
Incident | p. 86 |
Winter in the Park | p. 87 |
Vicarage Blues | p. 88 |
Two Cretan Views | p. 89 |
Portrait | p. 91 |
The Child | p. 92 |
Christmas | p. 93 |
Adam's Ballad | p. 94 |
from Knowledge of the Evening, 1960 | |
The Evergreen | p. 97 |
Dead Child | p. 101 |
The Young Ionia | p. 102 |
Decline and Fall | p. 104 |
The Lover | p. 106 |
Polonaise | p. 108 |
Parallax at Djebel-Muta | p. 110 |
Etruscan Tomb | p. 113 |
Roman Letter | p. 116 |
Florence | p. 119 |
Reflections in Venice | p. 121 |
A Frieze of Cupids | p. 125 |
Originated in a Chorus of Satyrs | p. 126 |
Ancient of Days | p. 127 |
And a Fortune in Olive Oil | p. 128 |
Affair at the Fork | p. 129 |
Calliope to Clio | p. 130 |
Ishtar | p. 131 |
A Pretty Device of the Fathers | p. 132 |
Natione non Moribus | p. 133 |
The Academy Disporting | p. 134 |
Isaiah's Coal | p. 136 |
Last Judgment | p. 137 |
De Fide | p. 138 |
Old River Road | p. 139 |
Conclusion | p. 144 |
from Of Flesh and Bone, 1967 | |
Few Things to Say | p. 147 |
Days of Our Years | p. 147 |
At Dawn | p. 147 |
Love | p. 147 |
Parting | p. 148 |
Contemplation | p. 148 |
Anacreon's Answer | p. 148 |
Protestation | p. 149 |
Epitaph for a Light Lady | p. 149 |
With Fingering Hand | p. 149 |
Avant-garde | p. 149 |
Visiting Poet | p. 150 |
Transplant | p. 150 |
View from Moon | p. 150 |
Philosopher | p. 151 |
Minotaur | p. 151 |
Embroidery at Bayeux | p. 151 |
Sophomore | p. 151 |
On the One Theme Still | p. 152 |
Love and Death | p. 152 |
The Visit | p. 152 |
Lovers | p. 152 |
Perfect Rhyme | p. 152 |
from The Kiss: A Jambalaya, 1982 | |
The Observatory Ode | p. 155 |
Cardiological | p. 158 |
Tide Turning | p. 159 |
Postcard from Minnesota | p. 161 |
Slapstick I | p. 164 |
Dawn Song | p. 165 |
Plaza de Toros | p. 168 |
The Year, 1520 | p. 169 |
Sonnet Almost Petrarchan | p. 170 |
Design: A Further Word | p. 171 |
With a Blonde in a Bar-Booth | p. 172 |
A Ballad of Kisses and Combs | p. 173 |
How to Tell the Girls from the Flowers | p. 174 |
A Scholar Wonders | p. 174 |
Stewardess Falls from Plane | p. 174 |
Daughter, Age 4 | p. 175 |
Sally and Alison: Julie And Joan | p. 176 |
The Madness in Vermont This Fall | p. 179 |
Love among the Philosophers | p. 180 |
Spleen | p. 182 |
A Summer Love | p. 183 |
Watching the Planes Come in at La Guardia | p. 184 |
First Date (2) | p. 184 |
The Origin of Myth | p. 185 |
Love Song for Outer Space | p. 187 |
Finisterre | p. 188 |
from Zany in Denim, 1990 | |
The Consolations of Etymology, with Fanfare | p. 193 |
The Book of Life | p. 193 |
As Goethe Said | p. 194 |
Lunch with Old Flame | p. 195 |
Ragdale Haiku | p. 195 |
Crutches and Canes | p. 195 |
Matthew 5:28 | p. 195 |
Disciples | p. 195 |
Good Friday | p. 196 |
Poets and Critics | p. 196 |
Verse Translator | p. 196 |
Occasions of Grace at a Poetry Reading | p. 196 |
from The Six-Cornered Snowflake, 1990 | |
The Six-Cornered Snowflake | p. 199 |
Gravity | p. 211 |
The Shape of Leaves | p. 213 |
Trick or Treat | p. 214 |
From the Rapido: La Spezia-Genova | p. 215 |
Water Music | p. 216 |
Dropping the Names | p. 221 |
The Wine of Astonishment | p. 223 |
Hospital Breakfast: With Grace After | p. 228 |
Elegy | p. 230 |
Keeping Change | p. 231 |
Palinode | p. 234 |
Niagara | p. 236 |
Closed for Restoration | p. 239 |
Notes | p. 241 |
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