Giant Moth Perishes

This book was read in its entirety, in front of a live audience at Jack Straw Cultural Center, Seattle, March 2023.

With exquisite detail and humble sensibilities, Geoffrey Nutter's sixth collection of poetry offers myriad delights in language and the imagination. In cityscapes, nature, books, and color, we find respite in the complexities of the commonplace-from clocks to teardrops to moths. The poems in Giant Moth Perishes teach us how to live in the world with curious attention. And at th...