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John Frederick Nims
(1913 - 1999)
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''Only
With words and people and love you move at ease.''
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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...
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''The refugee uncertain at the door
You make at home; deftly you steady
The drunk clambering on his undulant floor.''
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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...
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''For should your hands drop white and empty
All the toys of the world would break.''
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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...
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''And yet a kiss (like blubber)'d blur and slip,''
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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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