{"product_id":"cities-at-dawn-geoffrey-nutter-9781940696324","title":"Cities at Dawn","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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, \u003ci\u003eThe American Reader\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLush, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \"A Small Victorian Object\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhat's that in the mud where the tide is going out?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eButtons; bottle caps; small bits of Styrofoam\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ethat look like shells or coral; a few dead crabs;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ea cracked porcelain vessel from the Victorian era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003efor containing the tears shed by those\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ewho have survived the death of loved ones.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeoffrey Nutter \u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eA Summer Evening \u003c\/i\u003e(winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize), \u003ci\u003eWater's Leaves \u0026amp; Other Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), \u003ci\u003eChristopher Sunset\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Award), and \u003ci\u003eThe Rose of January\u003c\/i\u003e. He has taught poetry at Princeton, Columbia, the 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Geoffrey Nutter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1940696321\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781940696324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wave Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/04\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.40d","brand":"Geoffrey Nutter","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43937705427199,"sku":"9781940696324","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_5812f6fb-f43e-475e-b841-985a37fedd30.jpg?v=1681431548","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/cities-at-dawn-geoffrey-nutter-9781940696324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}