Christopher Sunset

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Christopher Sunset is the long-awaited follow-up to Nutter's second collection, Water's Leaves and Other Poems, continuing with that previous book's poems of timeless and painterly beauty and precision. Many serious readers of contemporary poetry are anticipating this present work. Christopher Sunset -- and Geoffrey Nutter's poetry in general -- occupies a particularly invaluable position in contemporary poetry, being the inheritor of the traditions of both ancient Chinese poetry and early-20th century painting, though neither without being showy in the least. Geoffrey Nutter is a graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has maintained deep connections to many of the professors and students who have passed through that program.

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"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 "Nutter sees things the rest of us do not ... Water's Leaves has the effect of entering a gallery filled with landscape paintings one has never seen ... too beautiful to be missed." --Time Out Chicago

Author Bio

Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, California. He is the author of A Summer Evening (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001), and winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize. His poems have appeared in Verse, Fence, jubilat, the Best American Poetry 1997 and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, daughter and son.