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After his success with Desperate Characters ( LJ 9/1/88), a novella-in-verse, Christopher has returned to his lyric mode, characterized by short, unadorned lines and lots of kinky, almost surreal detail. He likes to jazz up his poems with ''girls,'' who often seem to be dropped into the landscape: ''In summer a girl sat/ there every afternoon/ in a yellow bikini,/ fedora, and wraparound/ sunglasses . . ./ drinking Campari.'' ''Girls'' also appear naked, wearing turbans, as comic strip characters, as lovers, as barefoot beggars, in silk pantaloons, in Columbus's dreams, in red leather, raped by imperialists, and made up as Mussolini, and Christopher's campy way of being serious can grow tiresome. But there are some gems here--''On the Peninsula,'' for example, in which a sensuous sea floor of torch-lit fish and yellow crabs become ''where our bodies, locked fast,/turn under a blue sheet.''-- Ellen Kauf man, Dewey Ballantine Law Lib., New York
After his success with Desperate Characters ( LJ 9/1/88), a novella-in-verse, Christopher has returned to his lyric mode, characterized by short, unadorned lines and lots of kinky, almost surreal detail. He likes to jazz up his poems with ''girls,'' who often seem to be dropped into the landscape: ''In summer a girl sat/ there every afternoon/ in a yellow bikini,/ fedora, and wraparound/ sunglasses . . ./ drinking Campari.'' ''Girls'' also appear naked, wearing turbans, as comic strip characters, as lovers, as barefoot beggars, in silk pantaloons, in Columbus's dreams, in red leather, raped by imperialists, and made up as Mussolini, and Christopher's campy way of being serious can grow tiresome. But there are some gems here--''On the Peninsula,'' for example, in which a sensuous sea floor of torch-lit fish and yellow crabs become ''where our bodies, locked fast,/turn under a blue sheet.''-- Ellen Kauf man, Dewey Ballantine Law Lib., New York
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Hardback Editions
July 1992 : Hardback
| Title: In the Year of the Comet: Poems Author(s): Nicholas Christopher ISBN: 0-14-015450-7 / 978-0-14-015450-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin USA Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1992 : Hardback
| Title: In the Year of the Comet: Poems Author(s): Nicholas Christopher ISBN: 0-670-83963-9 / 978-0-670-83963-6 (USA, AU, or UK edition) Publisher: Viking/Allen Lane Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Paperback Editions
June 1995 : Paperback
| Title: In the Year of the Comet (Penguin Poets) Author(s): Christopher Nicholas ISBN: 0-14-058687-3 / 978-0-14-058687-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1992 : Paperback
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