John Frederick Nims - April 3, 1964

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John Frederick Nims

John Frederick Nims reads from Knowledge of the Evening (1960) and Of Flesh and Bone (1967); he also reads translations of poems by St. John of the Cross and Catullus. 

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Introduction
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by Dorothy Fuller

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"The Dark Night"
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by St. John of the Cross

Citation

John of the Cross, Saint. The Poems of St. John of the Cross. Trans. John Frederick Nims. New York: Grove Press, 1959.

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"Ballad ix: Of the Nativity"
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by St. John of the Cross

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John of the Cross, Saint. The Poems of St. John of the Cross. Trans. John Frederick Nims. New York: Grove Press, 1959.

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"The Young Ionia"
Citation

Nims, John Frederick. Knowledge of the Evening. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960.

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Excerpts from "The Evergreen"
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Nims, John Frederick. Knowledge of the Evening. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960.

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"Epitaphs for the Light Ladies" and "Epitaph for a Poet"
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Published versions bear the titles "Epitaph for a Light Lady," "Another," and "Another"; "Epitaph for a Light Lady" and "Epitaph for a Poet" differ from published versions.

"Aggie, who bragged..." is uncollected. 

Citation

Nims, John Frederick. Of Flesh and Bone. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1967.

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"Decline and Fall"
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Differs from published version. 

Citation

Nims, John Frederick. Knowledge of the Evening. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960.

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"A Pretty Device of the Fathers"
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Nims, John Frederick. Knowledge of the Evening. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960.

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"Nulli se dicit mulier mea nubere malle" / "My girl says she'll take no one else for a lover"
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by Catullus

Citation

Nims, John Frederick. Sappho to Valéry: Poems in Translation (2nd ed., revised and enlarged). Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1990.

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"Catullus, LXX"
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Published version bears the title "Spleen: Catullus, LXX." Differs from published version. 

Citation

Nims, John Frederick. The Kiss: A Jambalaya. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1982.

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"Curse"
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Published version bears the title "Palinode." Differs from published version. 

Citation

Nims, John Frederick. The Six-Cornered Snowflake and Other Poems. New York: New Directions, 1990.

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"Agamemnon Before Troy"
Citation

Nims, John Frederick. Knowledge of the Evening. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1960.

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John Frederick Nims
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LaVerne Harrell Clark
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