Christopher Sunset

Christopher Sunset is the long-awaited follow-up to Nutter’s second collection, Water’s Leaves and Other Poems, continuing with that previous book’s poems of timeless and painterly beauty and precision. Many serious readers of contemporary poetry are anticipating this present work. Christopher Sunset – and Geoffrey Nutter’s poetry in general – occupies a particularly invaluable position in contemporary poetry, being the inheritor of the traditions of both ancient Chinese poetry and early-20th century painting, though neither without being showy in the least. Geoffrey Nutter is a graduate of the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and has maintained deep connections to many of the professors and students who have passed through that program.