{"product_id":"on-jupiter-place-poems-paperback","title":"On Jupiter Place: Poems - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNicholas Christopher\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest known as a novelist, Nicholas Christopher began publishing poems in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e in his twenties, and has published eight collections, praised over the years by poets and critics as being among America's most important poets. Reviewing his selected poems, \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Equator\u003c\/i\u003e, published eight years ago, \u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e said, \"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.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn Jupiter Place\u003c\/i\u003e is his first book since that collection, and it contains material that is perhaps his most personal, autobiographical and intimate work yet. Beautifully made and carefully constructed, one might be reminded of Keats thinking that his poems were \"little machines\" of feeling. And everywhere in this book are moments of disorientation, where the wonder of the poem transcends understanding and leads its readers back into themselves slightly startled and richer for the effort. As 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, reviewing his \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Equator: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, reported that \"Nicholas Christopher is a fabulist...His fiction often puts me in mind of Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino, two time-travelers who are his great precursors. His poetry tends to build on the work of Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop and James Merrill. Like them, he has a taste for the exotic, the faraway, the displaced, the imaginary.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNicholas Christopher\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of seventeen books: eight previous volumes of poetry, most recently, \u003ci\u003eCrossing the Equator: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e; six novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Soloist\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVeronica\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eA Trip to the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e; a nonfiction book, \u003ci\u003eSomewhere in the Night: Film Noir \u0026amp; the American City\u003c\/i\u003e; and a novel for children, \u003ci\u003eThe True Adventures of Nicolò Zen\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 8.6 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 14, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51765354823968,"sku":"9781619029095","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/59bdd2b0f54ce7cb759c6ef89aef0b99.webp?v=1780266925","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/on-jupiter-place-poems-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}