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Opulent and lush poems inspired by Japanese, Chinese, and Elizabethan poets.
List of contents
A Small Victorian Object
Class E Ordinary Open High-Sided Wagon
The Lapidary Crystal
Billet-Doux
The Man Who Was Used Up
These Great Sentinels
Canals Paneled with Light
The Radiant Manifest
These Are the Cliffs of Wonder
The Mercurial Wheel
The Door into Summer
Portrait
René Descartes
The Harkening Knell
Apology for Idlers
A Pythian Ode
The Blooming of Significance
The New Atlantis
Common Misnomers
Cloud Iridescence
Botanical Gardens
Letter to a Friend
The Mental Image
The Strange Lives of Others
The Cigarist
Why Distant Objects Please
Voyages
Eddie Desirée Loves Aurora Baker
The Topography of the Moon
Six Records of a Floating Life
And What of Z?
Men with Mustaches
Albany
May I Join the Choir Invisible
Prodigies
My Name Is Dustin Hemp
Everybody Else
Cities at Dawn
Winding Towers
Marvell and Shenstone/Shenstone and Marvell
About the author
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.
