Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004

Nicholas Christopher has been praised as one of America's most important poets by such literary talents as John Ashbery, Charles Simic, James Merrill, and Anthony Hecht. Crossing the Equator collects Christopher's best work from the past three decades and includes a section of new poems that are among his finest.

Cold missiles and a rain

of embers accompany the men

who slide like shadows into the city

faces mud-smeared

stones for teeth no eyes

who slit the throats of everyone

they encounter until breaking down

my door they drag me into the darkness

that floods the corridor

and lock me in an icy chamber

--from THE LAST HOURS OF LA DIK , SISTER OF HEKTOR

Author: Nicholas Christopher
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 04/02/2007
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.48lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.35w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780156031400

About the Author
Christopher, Nicholas: - NICHOLAS CHRISTOPHER is the author of seven volumes of poetry, five novels, and a cultural history of film noir. He is a regular contributor to the New Yorker, Esquire, the Nation, the New Republic, the Paris Review, and other notable magazines. A professor in the School of the Arts at Columbia University, he lives in New York City.