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On Jupiter Place: Poems

On Jupiter Place: Poems


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Acclaimed as both a poet and a novelist, Nicholas Christopher began publishing poems in The New Yorker in his early twenties. Since then, he has published eight poetry collections. He has been praised over the years, by poets and critics, as one of America’s most important poets. Reviewing his selected poems, Crossing the Equator, The Washington Post wrote: “To read his richly honed and sensuous work, which has so much tensile strength, is to visit other worlds and then to return to our own disturbed by time, but also refreshed and reawakened.”
On Jupiter Place is Christopher's first book since that collection, and its poems are among his most personal and intimate. A section of beautifully constructed lyric and narrative poems is followed by a series of twenty-one interconnected poems set in a Paris that is both real and nearly real. The title poem reads almost like a mini-autobiography of the poet's earliest experiences — his mother's near fatal illness, his subsequent life with his grandparents in a multiethnic working-class neighborhood, teeming with characters: a Holocaust survivor who resides next door to a former German-American Bund member, a flashy mobster raises his family across the street from a failing car salesman, a night nurse and a domineering widow. Other poems explore issues of travel, love, loss, death. There is a "notebook" that chronicles, by way of short poetry entries, the turbulent, reflective year after the poet's father dies, and a long poem in which we take a feminist look at Lois Lane as a cultural icon. As in all his poetry books, Christopher draws on his skills as a novelist to construct his long poems and to assemble the intricate sequences at the heart of this collection. As W.S. Merwin has written: "His poems are vibrant with light and the surprise of recognition. He shows us again and again the luminous nature of the familiar.” On Jupiter Place is a rich, powerful collection from one of our premier poets.



About the Author :
Nicholas Christopher is the author of seventeen books- eight previous volumes of poetry, most recently, Crossing the Equator- New & Selected Poems; six novels, including The Soloist, Veronica, and A Trip to the Stars; a nonfiction book, Somewhere in the Night- Film Noir & the American City; and a novel for children, The True Adventures of Nicol Zen. He lives in New York City.

Review :
"Nicholas Christopher is a fabulist...His fiction often puts me in mind of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, two time-travelers who are his great precursors. His poetry tends to build on the work of Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill. Like them, he has a taste for the exotic, the faraway, the displaced, the imaginary." --Edward Hirsch


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781619029095
  • Publisher: Counterpoint
  • Publisher Imprint: Counterpoint
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 96
  • Sub Title: Poems
  • ISBN-10: 161902909X
  • Publisher Date: 14 Mar 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 152 mm


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