Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, and attended San Francisco State University and the Iowa Writer’s Workshop. He is the author of Christopher Sunset (Wave Books, 2010), Water’s Leaves & Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize) and A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001). His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1997, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries and Isn’t It Romantic: 100 Poems by Younger American Poets. He currently teaches in New York City, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son.
Contents
Metalmark
Colossus
Samuel Pepys
Here Is a Clock Tower
The Circle
Habitable Bridges
River Landscape
Batrachomyomachia
The City of Magnificent Distances
Famous Androids
Dope
Ithaca
The Avenue of the Hyacinth of Waters
Lepidopterans
Gem Alphabet
Sonnet
Hudibras
Portrait of John Bours
Remember the Telephone Book
The Brickyard
Tire Manufacturers
Ghosts
Rapprochement
Mr. Greenglass
Fireworks Display in Early Summer
Song
Nineteenth-Century Novel
River Running by a Glassworks
Biography
The Island of the Blessed
Away, in the Change That Befell
Men of the Twentieth Century
Shadow Government
Clematis
The Trap
Venus Victrix
King of the Dudes
The Lackadaisical Poets
Purple Martin
Prelude to What Comes Next
Buddha
The Petronas Towers
Rose of Sharon
Invective Against Pugs
The Lilies of the Field
The Problems of Poetry
Dream of January
Victory Gum Ball
The Altar Boys
Mountain Man
The Task
Beholder
The Metaphor
Summer Evening
