Crossing the Equator : New and Selected Poems 1972-2004

Nicholas Christopher

ISBN 10: 015603140X / ISBN 13: 9780156031400

Published by Houghton Mifflin, 2007

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 rainof embers accompany the menwho slide like shadows into the cityfaces mud-smearedstones for teeth no eyeswho slit the throats of everyonethey encounter until breaking downmy door they drag me into the darknessthat floods the corridorand lock me in an icy chamber -from 'THE LAST HOURS OF LAÓDIKÊ, SISTER OF HEKTOR'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crossing the Equator : New and Selected Poems 1972-2004
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 015603140X
• ISBN 13: 9780156031400
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 203W x 133H x 14D millimeters 203 millimeters width by 133 millimeters height by 14 millimeters depth
• Weight: 310 grams

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Synopsis

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"

About the Author

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.