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The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems
Language: en
Pages: 76
Authors: John Frederick Nims
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing

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As a preeminent modernist poet and translator of the classics, John Frederick Nims's work is an elegant fusion of contemporary sensibility with formalist experi
The Six-Cornered Snowflake
Language: en
Pages: 160
Authors: Johannes Kepler
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-01-01 - Publisher: Paul Dry Books

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"In 1611, Kepler wrote an essay wondering why snowflakes always had perfect, sixfold symmetry. It's a simple enough question, but one that no one had ever asked
The Six-cornered Snowflake and Other Poems
Language: en
Pages: 72
Authors: John Frederick Nims
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 1990 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing

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As a preeminent modernist poet and translator of the classics, John Frederick Nims's work is an elegant fusion of contemporary sensibility with formalist experi
Poems for the Game of Silence
Language: en
Pages: 230
Authors: Jerome Rothenberg
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-11 - Publisher: New Directions Publishing

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"I look for new forms and possibilities," writes Jerome Rothenberg in Poems for the Game of Silence, "but also for ways of presenting in my own language the old
Winter Facets
Language: en
Pages: 240
Authors: Andrea Dortmann
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007 - Publisher: Peter Lang

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Based on a variety of close readings, this book analyzes the use of ice and snow motifs in selected literary, scientific, and philosophical texts by a wide rang