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Explores the timelessness of the poetic voice from Ovid to Plath.

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 eight superb collections Nims published between 1947 and 1990. In addition, this incomparably rich volume includes thirty new poems published during Nims's last decade. From first to last there is no falling off. Nims's irrepressible j...

As a preeminent modernist poet and translator of the classics, John Frederick Nims's work is an elegant fusion of contemporary sensibility with formalist experimentation.

Selected Poems" represents the best of John Frederick Nims's widely aclaimed work over the past thirty years. Selections are from "Five Young American Poets, " Third Series (1944), "The Iron Pastoral" (1947), "A Fountain in Kentucky" (1950), "Knowledge of the Evening" (1960), and "Of Flesh and Bone" (1967) and emcompasses the full range of one of contemporary America's foremost poets.

Revised and enlarged, the second edition of Sappho to Valéry includes both the originals and translations of ninety-eight poems from nine different languages. Nims offers new and lively interpretations of a number of poems that have been translated and others available in no other English translation.A former editor of Poetry, John Frederick Nims has published several volumes of his own poetry, poetry in translation, and essays on the form.

The most beautiful book in the English language." -- Ezra Pound