Cities at Dawn

Cities at DawnBy Geoffrey Nutter Description Reviews Lush, surreal, cinematic, and imagistically precise, Geoffrey Nutter paints the world into his fifth collection of poems. His poems display a consciousness in awe of all matter, be it organic, mechanical, industrial, ornithological, or sartorial. Iridescent and sparkling, his poems are ornate wonders of language, each their own contained ecosystem and civilization. Nutters poetry, time and time again, reminds us

formally vigorous poems like the abecedarian

except the goal isn’t to solve it but to present every possible arrangement

a work of craft and originality and heart

The accomplished poet is humorous and self-deprecating in this collection of illuminating essays on poetry

Readers hoping for a thought-provoking and and strikingly familiar exploration of life in 21st century America will find As Long As Trees Last to be a compelling and often moving collection

is perhaps better defined as the betrayal of memory

where there were blackouts

These poems are a strange and powerful force to be reckoned with

Kocot is a poet of strange authority

to Donnelly’s elusive poetry

Lax is equally sensitive to their referential value

The world as Beckman sees it is as good as we make it—the tending is the point—and we are lucky to have him in our garden