Cities at Dawn

• We will send desk copies to academics with whom the author has close ties, and will look to promote the book on Consortium's academic website. • We plan to promote this book beyond the usual poetry channels to artists, composers and philosophers who might be interested in this collection's exploration of the literary, musical, and philosophical imaginations. Nutter will promote the book on his website, http://wallsonglass.com/. • We will seek to promote Nutter's work through features and reviews in Bookslut, American Poet, Gulf Coast, Boston Review, The Rumpus, Jacket2, and The Poetry Foundation, among others.

Opulent and lush poems inspired by Japanese, Chinese, and Elizabethan poets."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 & 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.