Publisher's Synopsis
Best known as a novelist, Nicholas Christopher began publishing poems in The New Yorker in his twenties, and has published eight collections, praised over the years by poets and critics as being among America's most important poets. 'On Jupiter Place' contains material that is perhaps his most personal, autobiographical, and intimate work yet. Beautifully made and carefully constructed, one might be reminded of Keats thinking that his poems were little machines' of feeling. And everywhere in this book are moments of disorientation, where the wonder of the poem transcends understanding and leads its readers back into themselves slightly startled and richer for the effort.
