Water's Leaves and Other Poems

by Geoffrey Nutter

Overview

“Pantheism and synesthesia are his visionary rules . . . severe, contagious fun.”—Boston Review

“How much of what we call ‘seeing’ is actually ‘believing?’” Geoffrey Nutter asks in his dazzling second collection. The quiet, daring “water voices” of these poems carry the reader into their serious play, in settings as varied as the Tappan Zee Bridge and the inside of a flower, turning language ‘touchable’ and words into music.

Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, California. He is the author of A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1997 and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, daughter, and son.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780974635361
Publisher:	Wave Books
Publication date:	09/01/2005
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, California. He is the author of A Summer Evening (Center for Literary Publishing, 2001), winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize. His poems have appeared in Verse, Fence, jubilat, the Best American Poetry 1997 and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, daughter and son.

Table of Contents

	The Experiment	9
	Journey by Train	10
	The Definition of Swan	11
	Trees Choosing a King	12
	Milagros Cordero	13
	Century Morning	15
	Invitation	16
	The Black Dog	17
	Si, the Nevid Fruit	18
	Afternoon in Iceland	19
	The Wedding Gift	22
	The Peacock	23
	Flower Sermon	24
	The Paragon	25
	Tea, Chairs, and Cormorants	26
	Water's Leaves	29
	The Stony Silence of Grassy Fields	31
	Landscapes	34
	That What Happen	37
	Giant Water Bugs	39
	Ocean's Red Bio-Novel Nights	40
	The Curvature of the World	42
	The Raphael of Cats	43
	The Cloud	44
	Sleep Thing Militant	45
	Cadenza	47
	Titan Cement	48
	Analects	49
	Boy Leading a Horse	50
	The Mountain	51
	The Superman in Front of the Supermarket	54
	Great Ones	56
	The Firemen	58
	The Ball Cube	59
	Abracadabra	60
	The Iliad	61
	Red Soda	62
	El Arco Iris Olmec	64
	The Eucalyptus	65
	Forest Law	68
	Book Consisting of Seven Poems	69
	What Is To Be Done?	75
	Ferdinand the Rail	76
	Lipton Yellow Label Tea	78
	Peloponnesian Wars	81
	The Red Pebble	82
	The Prologue	83
	The Bright Day	84
	Crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge	85