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John Frederick Nims
John Frederick Nims (1913 - 1999)
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John Frederick Nims was born in 1913. He was the author of eight collections of poetry, including The Six-Cornered Snowflake, Zany in Denim, and Knowl .. more >>
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  ''Only
With words and people and love you move at ease.''
John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases (l. 13-14). . . How Does a Poem Mean? John Ciardi and Mil...
 
  ''The refugee uncertain at the door
You make at home; deftly you steady
The drunk clambering on his undulant floor.''
John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases (l. 6-8). . . How Does a Poem Mean? John Ciardi and Mille...
 
  ''For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.''
John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. My clumsiest dear, whose hands shipwreck vases (l. 23-24). . . How Does a Poem Mean? John Ciardi and Mil...
 
  ''And yet a kiss (like blubber)'d blur and slip,''
John Frederick Nims (b. 1913), U.S. poet. Love and Death (l. 1). . . Western Wind; an Introduction to Poetry. John Frederick Nims, ed. (2d ed., 19...

 
 
 
 
 
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