“Pantheism and synesthesia are his visionary rules . . . severe, contagious fun.”—Boston Review
“How much of what we call ‘seeing’ is actually ‘believing?’” Geoffrey Nutter asks in his dazzling second collection. The quiet, daring “water voices” of these poems carry the reader into their serious play, in settings as varied as the Tappan Zee Bridge and the inside of a flower, turning language ‘touchable’ and words into music.
Geoffrey Nutter was born in Sacramento, California. He is the author of A Summer Evening, winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize. His poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry 1997 and The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries. He lives in Manhattan with his wife, daughter, and son.

Water's Leaves and Other Poems

Literature & Fiction

Nutter, Geoffrey

United States

Wave Books

Winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize for Poetry Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University

A Summer Evening (Colorado Prize for Poetry)

Poetry

Center for Literary Publishing

“Could it be that Wallace Stevens and Gertrude Stein met in Elysium and had a son named Geoffrey Nutter?”–John Yau
Bearing the visionary inheritance of ancient Chinese poets and early twentieth-century painters, Geoffrey Nutter casts a penetrating light into the colorfully shifting landscape of modern existence. Christopher Sunset reinvigorates the architecture of society’s captive and captivating imaginations.
Geoffrey Nutter is the author of Water’s Leaves &amp; Other Poems (Verse Press) and A Summer Evening (Center for Literary Publishing). His poems have been widely anthologized, including in the Best American Poetry series. He lives in Manhattan with his family.

Christopher Sunset

"Nutter is a true believer in the power of art, which is the power that produces these beautiful and vital poems."—Mark Levine
In his fourth collection, Geoffrey Nutter beckons us into his lush imagination—where bygone monoliths cast shadows over new landscapes—a world of dreams, rife with unexpected encounters.
We are everywhere, instantly; the electric stations crackle on full power, running on the ghost impulses of the waterfalls.
Geoffrey Nutter is the author of Christopher Sunset, Water's Leaves and Other Poems, and A Summer Evening. He currently teaches at New York University.

The Rose of January

Cities at Dawn

"Whatever's smuggled into these poems—the Petronas Towers, Afghanistan cliffs, Lugers and New Jersey—obeys the abstract logic at the heart of descriptive writing: the sweet ease of writing's intangibility, its virtual tease." —Adam Fitzgerald, The American Reader
Lush, surreal, cinematic, and imagistically precise, Geoffrey Nutter paints the world into his fifth collection of poems. His poems display a consciousness in awe of all matter, be it organic, mechanical, industrial, ornithological, or sartorial. Iridescent and sparkling, his poems are ornate wonders of language, each their own contained ecosystem and civilization.
From "A Small Victorian Object":
What's that in the mud where the tide is going out? Buttons; bottle caps; small bits of Styrofoam that look like shells or coral; a few dead crabs; a cracked porcelain vessel from the Victorian era for containing the tears shed by those who have survived the death of loved ones. 
Geoffrey Nutter is the author of A Summer Evening (winner of the 2001 Colorado Prize), Water's Leaves &amp; Other Poems (Winner of the 2004 Verse Press Prize), Christopher Sunset (winner of the 2011 Sheila Motton Book Award), and The Rose of January. He has taught poetry at Princeton, Columbia, the University of Iowa, NYU, and the New School, and currently teaches Greek and Latin Classics and Cultural Studies at Queens College. He runs the Wallson Glass Poetry Seminars in New York City.

Giant Moth Perishes

With exquisite detail and humble sensibilities, Geoffrey Nutter's sixth collection of poetry offers myriad delights in language and the imagination. In cityscapes, nature, books, and color, we find respite in the complexities of the commonplace--from clocks to teardrops to moths. The poems inGiant Moth Perishes teach us how to live in the world with curious attention. And at the heart of this daydreaming is a spectacular earnestness, firmly embedded in the idea that the landscape of poetry is limitless and wild.

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Water's Leaves and Other Poems

A Summer Evening (Colorado Prize for Poetry)

Christopher Sunset

The Rose of January

Cities at Dawn

Giant Moth Perishes

Giant Moth Perishes