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Nicholas Christopher is one of his generation's finest poets. The author of such masterpieces as In the Year of the Comet and The Creation of the Night Sky, he has earned a reputation for the sheer beauty of his verse, for his elegiac voice, and for his lush, redolent vocabulary. Now he presents two extended poems, set in the years 1962 and 1972. Each year includes forty-five poems that evoke the life of a young boy and, later, a young man, during those alternately calm and turbulent decades. Comic books, a first bicycle, television, candy stores, the threat of nuclear war, drug experimentation, travel in Europe, love affairs, questioning the world: these subjects form a common thread of growing up in middle-class America and of a young man entering the adult world, feeling and trying to understand its complexities, pains, and joys. An exciting and moving illumination of age and experience, Atomic Field is a major work by a celebrated American poet.
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About the Author
Nicholas Christopher is the author of six books of poetry, several anthologies of contemporary American verse, a study of film noir, and three novels, including the recently published A Trip to the Stars. His work has been widely anthologized. He lives in New York City.
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1972
On my twenty-first birthday I find myself
at the edge of a desert
with a map of the stars-
not the ones in the sky overhead,
but in galaxies where even now time is just beginning.
Stars we will never see in our own lifetimes:
the ones that light up behind the eyes
of a baby about to be born
and the man who takes his dying breath.
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- PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0151005532
- ISBN 13 9780151005536
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages95
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