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On Jupiter Place - Poems (Paperback, First Trade Paper Edition)
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Acclaimed as both a poet and a novelist, Nicholas Christopher began
publishing poems in The New Yorker in his early twenties. Since
then, he has published eight poetry collections. He has been
praised over the years, by poets and critics, as one of America's
most important poets. Reviewing his selected poems, Crossing the
Equator, The Washington Post wrote: Â To read his richly honed and
sensuous work, which has so much tensile strength, is to visit
other worlds and then to return to our own disturbed by time, but
also refreshed and reawakened."On Jupiter Place is Christopher's
first book since that collection, and its poems are among his most
personal and intimate. A section of beautifully constructed lyric
and narrative poems is followed by a series of twenty-one
interconnected poems set in a Paris that is both real and nearly
real. The title poem reads almost like a mini-autobiography of the
poet's earliest experiences  his mother's near fatal illness, his
subsequent life with his grandparents in a multiethnic
working-class neighborhood, teeming with characters: a Holocaust
survivor who resides next door to a former German-American Bund
member, a flashy mobster raises his family across the street from a
failing car salesman, a night nurse and a domineering widow. Other
poems explore issues of travel, love, loss, death. There is a
"notebook" that chronicles, by way of short poetry entries, the
turbulent, reflective year after the poet's father dies, and a long
poem in which we take a feminist look at Lois Lane as a cultural
icon. As in all his poetry books, Christopher draws on his skills
as a novelist to construct his long poems and to assemble the
intricate sequences at the heart of this collection. As W.S. Merwin
has written: "His poems are vibrant with light and the surprise of
recognition. He shows us again and again the luminous nature of the
familiar." On Jupiter Place is a rich, powerful collection from one
of our premier poets.
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