Geoffrey Nutter's 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.
""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' . . . 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""
"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' . . . 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
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