A Summer Evening
Winner of the Colorado Prize
Final judge, Jorie Graham
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by Geoffrey
Nutter
"A Summer Evening urgently and beautifully explores conflicting circular
and linear sensations of time. Embodying that dismembering dichotomy in undated
digital time-markers--thus refusing to indicate whether we are, at any given
moment, moving forward or backward--it compels us to leap to increasingly vertigo-laden
temporal assumptions that, like some fraying net, tighten to temporarily hold
narrative, then rip it 'free.' |
One ends up in the presence
of a terrifying--yet also strangely liberating--universe
where one cannot tell whether one is indeed
progressing on a 'journey of life' (in
which actions count, consequence exists,
for example) or whether one is locked in
some mock-time in which accountability
cannot be acted upon, but in which it still
presses, demanding redress. While all along,
at the core, almost madly, song continues
. . ." --Jorie
Graham, Pulitzer-Prize winning author of The
Dream of the Unified Field: Selected Poems
1974-1994
 "Geoffrey
Nutter's A Summer Evening is a long serial poem composed of largely enjambed
ten-line fragments. There's great elegance and intimacy in this poem, and
there is a strange nervousness that reminds me of the expert plumb of certain
of Virginia Woolf's diary entries. I did enjoy this book."
--Norman Dubie, author of The Mercy Seat: Collected & New Poems 1967-2001 and The
Clouds of Magellan
Geoffrey Nutter studied at San Francisco State University and the University
of Iowa, where he was awarded the Academy of American Poets prize. His poems
have appeared in such magazines as American Letters and Commentary, Chicago
Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fine Madness, Fence, the Iowa Review,
Verse, Volt, and Best American Poetry 1997.
Poetry
October 2001
1-885635-02-8
$14.95 Paper
104 pages
5 1/2 x 8 1/4 |
