Christopher Sunset

by Geoffrey Nutter

“Could it be that Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein met in Elysium and had a son named Geoffrey Nutter?”–John Yau

Bearing the visionary inheritance of ancient Chinese poets and early twentieth-century painters, Geoffrey Nutter casts a penetrating light into the colorfully shifting landscape of modern existence. Christopher Sunset reinvigorates the architecture of society’s captive and captivating imaginations.

Geoffrey Nutter is the author of Water’s Leaves & Other Poems (Verse Press) and A Summer Evening (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have been widely anthologized, including in the Best American Poetry series. He lives in Manhattan with his family.

Genres: Poetry

80 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

About the author

Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, and attended San Francisco State University and the Iowa Writer's Workshop. He is the author of Christopher Sunset (Wave Books, 2010), Water's Leaves & Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize) and A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001). His poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Best American Poetry 1997, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries and Isn't It Romantic: 100 Poems by Younger American Poets. Geoffrey currently teaches in New York City, where he lives with his wife, daughter and son.

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