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A catalogue raisonn of the graphic work of Richard Florsheim.
[Syracuse, N.Y.]: Syracuse University Art Collection in cooperation
with the Richard A. Florsheim Art Fund, 1988. Arch & Art NE539.F55
A4 1988
The six-cornered snowflake and other poems, by John Frederick Nims.New
York, N.Y.: New Directions, 1990. Main Book Stacks PS3527.I863 S5
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The iron pastoral, by John Frederick Nims. New York: William Sloane
Associates [1947]. Main Book Stacks PS3527.I863 I7
A local habitation: essays on poetry, by John
Frederick Nims. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c1985. Main
Book Stacks PS3527.I863 L6 1985
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(The poem caption on the right of the picture):
Set any wheel to earth, and two wheels meet:
Ours and the planet's ponderous wheel of stone
Whose rim is crags and canyons and quick sleet
Or bubbling mire in which all axles drown.
Athens cut ruts of marble: snow-white courses
Guided Apollo's car and chimed with gold.
Shakespeare saw wagon-ways; the horsepower, horses.
Over the flats of Kansas sail-cars rolled.
First planks across soft ground; then plates of metal;
Then iron turned up edgewise; ties of stone...
The grim earth wore them down like gear of battle
Rusted and hewn, in one inferno thrown.
Sad rags of smoke from many a charring pyre
Snatch at the brass and varnish of the Flyer.
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