Water's Leaves and Other Poems
“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.

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Water's Leaves and Other Poems
“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.

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Water's Leaves and Other Poems

Water's Leaves and Other Poems

by Geoffrey Nutter
Water's Leaves and Other Poems

Water's Leaves and Other Poems

by Geoffrey Nutter

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“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 Experiment9
Journey by Train10
The Definition of Swan11
Trees Choosing a King12
Milagros Cordero13
Century Morning15
Invitation16
The Black Dog17
Si, the Nevid Fruit18
Afternoon in Iceland19
The Wedding Gift22
The Peacock23
Flower Sermon24
The Paragon25
Tea, Chairs, and Cormorants26
Water's Leaves29
The Stony Silence of Grassy Fields31
Landscapes34
That What Happen37
Giant Water Bugs39
Ocean's Red Bio-Novel Nights40
The Curvature of the World42
The Raphael of Cats43
The Cloud44
Sleep Thing Militant45
Cadenza47
Titan Cement48
Analects49
Boy Leading a Horse50
The Mountain51
The Superman in Front of the Supermarket54
Great Ones56
The Firemen58
The Ball Cube59
Abracadabra60
The Iliad61
Red Soda62
El Arco Iris Olmec64
The Eucalyptus65
Forest Law68
Book Consisting of Seven Poems69
What Is To Be Done?75
Ferdinand the Rail76
Lipton Yellow Label Tea78
Peloponnesian Wars81
The Red Pebble82
The Prologue83
The Bright Day84
Crossing the Tappan Zee Bridge85
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