Cities at Dawn

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Hardcover
2016
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Lush, surreal, cinematic, and imagistically precise, Geoffrey Nutter paints the world into his fifth collection of poems. His poems display a consciousness in awe of all matter, be it organic, mechanical, industrial, ornithological, or sartorial. Iridescent and sparkling, his poems are ornate wonders of language, each their own contained ecosystem and civilization.

Synopsis

Lush, surreal, cinematic, and imagistically precise, Geoffrey Nutter paints the world into his fifth collection of poems. His poems display a consciousness in awe of all matter, be it organic, mechanical, industrial, ornithological, or sartorial. Iridescent and sparkling, his poems are ornate wonders of language, each their own contained ecosystem and civilization.

$17.05

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 120
Publisher: Wave Books
Published: 11 Oct 2016
ISBN 10: 194069633X
ISBN 13: 9781940696331
Book Overview: * We will send desk copies to academics with whom the author has close ties, and will look to promote the book on Consortium's academic website.* We plan to promote this book beyond the usual poetry channels to artists, composers and philosophers who might be interested in this collection's exploration of the literary, musical, and philosophical imaginations. Nutter will promote the book on his website, http://wallsonglass.com/.* We will seek to promote Nutter's work through features and reviews in Bookslut, American Poet, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, The Rumpus, Jacket2, and The Poetry Foundation, among others.

Media Reviews

Whatever's smuggled into these poems--the Petronas Towers, Afghanistan cliffs, Lugers and New Jersey--obeys the abstract logic at the heart of descriptive writing: the sweet ease of writing's intangibility, its virtual tease. --Adam Fitzgerald, The American Reader Poems about strawberries, battleships, and elevators begin on track and morph into burgeoning blossoms. The poems unfurl smoothly and astonishingly, 'winding toward a pinnacle.' --Jeffrey Cyphers Wright, The Brooklyn Rail Nutter is a poet whose hand rests on the rudder, but who is also confident enough to let his poem-ships follow the current underneath. It's a movement similar to the way dreams progress...where the propulsive force of associative imagery leads each poem forward down the page. --Michelle Taransky, Time Out Chicago Thank goodness for Geoffrey Nutter, whose poetry seems to be powered equally by sunlight, virtue, wonder, and humility...Geoffrey Nutter has handed us a book that records the motions of being human, enacting it in language that leads to a passionate feeling of overflow. --Rain Taxi Like Italo Calvino meets Wallace Stevens meets William Gass with a dash of Kafka tossed in, Nutter's writing has one foot planted firmly in reality and the other in the fantastical world of the poet's imagination. --Michelle Aldredge, Gwarlingo

Author Bio

Geoffrey Nutter is the author of A Summer Evening (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize), Water's Leaves & Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), Christopher Sunset (winner of the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Award), and The Rose of January. He has taught poetry at Princeton, Columbia, University of Iowa, NYU, and the New School, and currently teaches Greek and Latin Classics and Cultural Studies at Queens College. He runs the Wallson Glass Poetry Seminars in New York City.