Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004 - Hardcover

Published in hardcover by Harcourt, 2004, 0-15-101095-1

"A major poet of his generation... Mr. Christopher's poetry is not merely extraordinarily good, but seems to me altogether in a class by itself." -- Anthony Hecht
 
Since his poetry began appearing in the New Yorker when he was in his early twenties, Nicholas Christopher has been praised as one of America's most important poets. Crossing the Equator combines Christopher's best work from the past three decades with a section of new poems. The transformative voice of Crossing the Equator displays Christopher's dazzling power and luminosity.
 
Praise for CROSSING THE EQUATOR
"One of our most inventive writers... To read [Christopher’s] richly honed and sensuous work, which has so much tensile strength, is to visit other worlds and then return to our own, disturbed by time, but also refreshed and reawakened." --Edward Hirsch, The Washington Post Book World

"[A] dreamlike and highly visual collection, where punctuation is often scarce and the plausible . . . can quickly turn surreal." -- The New Yorker
 
NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER is the author of seven volumes of poetry, five novels, and a cultural history of film noir. A regular contributor to the New Yorker, Esquire, the Nation, the Paris Review, and other notable magazines, he is a professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University and lives in New York City.