Crossing The Equator - New and Selected Poems 1972-2004

Informationen zum Autor NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER is the author of seven volumes of poetry, five novels, and a cultural history of film noir. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, Esquire, the Nation, the New Republic, the Paris Review, and other notable magazines. A professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, he lives in New York City. Klappentext Nicholas Christopher has been praised as one of America's most important poets by such literary talents as John Ashbery, Charles Simic, James Merrill, and Anthony Hecht. Crossing the Equator collects Christopher's best work from the past three decades and includes a section of new poems that are among his finest. Cold missiles and a rain of embers accompany the men who slide like shadows into the city faces mud-smeared stones for teeth no eyes who slit the throats of everyone they encounter until breaking down my door they drag me into the darkness that floods the corridor and lock me in an icy chamber -from "THE LAST HOURS OF LAÓDIKÊ, SISTER OF HEKTOR" Zusammenfassung Nicholas Christopher has been praised as one of America’s most important poets by such literary talents as John Ashbery, Charles Simic, James Merrill, and Anthony Hecht. Crossing the Equator collects Christopher’s best work from the past three decades and includes a section of new poems that are among his finest. Cold missiles and a rain of embers accompany the men who slide like shadows into the city faces mud-smeared stones for teeth no eyes who slit the throats of everyone they encounter until breaking down my door they drag me into the darkness that floods the corridor and lock me in an icy chamber —from "THE LAST HOURS OF LAÓDIKÊ, SISTER OF HEKTOR"

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Christopher
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.04.2007
• EAN: 9780156031400
• ISBN: 978-0-15-603140-0
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Canada, Poetry, Epic, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, nonfiction;american;america;poetry;american poetry, Poetry anthologies (various poets), Classic and pre-20th century poetry, Medieval style, POETRY: Women Authors, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, POETRY: Anthologies (multiple authors), POETRY: Medieval, POETRY: Epic, POETRY: Haiku *, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Medieval, Poetry by form: Haiku, american;america;poetry;nonfiction;2006;2007;2008