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Western wind : an introduction to poetry / John Frederick Nims.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nims, John Frederick, 1913-1999.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetics.
- Poetry--Collections.
- Poetry.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xxxvi, 634 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : McGraw-Hill, [1992]
- Contents:
- Where Experience Starts: The Image
- What's It LIke? Simile, Metaphor, and Other Figures
- The Broken Coin: The Use of Symbol
- Binocular Vision: Antipoetry, Paradox, Irony, the Withheld Image
- The Color of Thought: The Emotions
- Machine for Magic: The Fresh Usual Words
- Gold in the Ore: The Sounds of English
- Working with Gold: The Devices of Sound
- The Dancer and the Dance: The Play of Rhythms
- Different Drummers: Rhythms Old and New
- The Shape of Thought: We Go A-Sentencing
- Golden Numbers: On Nature and Form
- A Head on Its Shoulders: Common Sense, Uncommon Sense
- Adam's Curse: Inspiration and Effort.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Nims, John Frederick, 1913-1999. Western wind.
- ISBN:
- 0070465746
- 9780070465749
- 0070465851
- 9780070465855
- OCLC:
- 23976731
- Online:
- Publisher description
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