Starting with the classic "Out of the Past," Christopher takes us on the grand tour of the great film noirs. With style and humor, he identifies the genre's central motif -- "The city as labyrinth is key to entering the psychological and aesthetic framework of the film noir" -- and goes on to analyze more than three hundred films from 1940 to the present. Imbuing the language of film with the lyricism so praised in his novels, Christopher draws from his vast knowledge of literature to explore the genre's numerous influences. (Although it was a French critic who coined the term "film noir," Christopher argues that Americans had been shooting films in the genre years even before the term was invented.) Citing cultural, social, and historical influences from all over the world, he effortlessly guides us through the labyrinth.This edition includes a new afterword and expanded filmography, making this bold and thoroughly researched book more relevant and comprehensive than ever.

Somewhere in the Night: Film Noir & the American City

Christopher, Nicholas

Free Press

Collects a novella and a selection of dramatic monologues, character sketches, and poems

Desperate Characters (Poets, Penguin)

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Penguin??Books

A Short History of the Island of Butterflies

Poems consider the night, mortality, the past, writers, sunlight, winter, travel, love, politics, memory, and blizzards

Poetry

Puffin

Poems deal with the cyles of nature, the ocean, the stars, the mind, memories, travel, and mortality

In the Year of the Comet (Penguin Poets)

United States

5 Degrees and Other Poems (Penguin Poets)

Poems deal with the combining themes of magic, spiritual transcendence and exploration

In “a haunting, multifaceted work filled with astonishing, surreal images” (New York Times Book Review), “one of the very best poets of his generation” (Anthony Hecht) transports us from Hawaii to Las Vegas to Greenwich Village - and limns the spiritual emanations of life and death.

The Creation of the Night Sky

Harcourt

Nicholas Christopher is one of his generation's finest poets. The author of such masterpieces as In the Year of the Comet and The Creation of the Night Sky, he has earned a reputation for the sheer beauty of his verse, for his elegiac voice, and for his lush, redolent vocabulary. Now he presents two extended poems, set in the years 1962 and 1972. Each year includes forty-five poems that evoke the life of a young boy and, later, a young man, during those alternately calm and turbulent decades. Comic books, a first bicycle, television, candy stores, the threat of nuclear war, drug experimentation, travel in Europe, love affairs, questioning the world: these subjects form a common thread of growing up in middle-class America and of a young man entering the adult world, feeling and trying to understand its complexities, pains, and joys. An exciting and moving illumination of age and experience, Atomic Field is a major work by a celebrated American poet.

Atomic Field: Two Poems

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

Since his poetry began appearing in the New Yorker when he was in his early twenties, Nicholas Christopher has been praised as one of America's most important poets by such literary talents as John Ashbery, Charles Simic, James Merrill, and Anthony Hecht, among others. Crossing the Equator collects Christopher's best work from the past three decades and includes a section of new poems that are among his finest. Exploring with equal brilliance the labyrinths of history and the human heart, the jagged magic of urban life and the illuminations of travel, the luminous and transformative voice of Crossing the Equator puts on display Christopher's dazzling power and myriad depths. Cold missiles and a rain of embers accompany the men who slide like shadows into the city faces mud-smeared stones for teeth no eyes who slit the throats of everyone they encounter until breaking down my door they drag me into the darkness that floods the corridor and lock me in an icy chamber -from "The Last Hours of Laódikê, Sister of Hektor"

Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004

Nicholas Christopher's newest collection displays both his trademark mastery of language and astonishing range. In elegaic verses of surpassing beauty we are taken from the lush islands of Hawaii to the streets of Greenwich Village after midnight to a sparsely attended Las Vegas funeral. Whether he is describing items lost and found or a woman drowning in a stormy sea, Christopher's verse is filled with moments of spiritual illumination that confirm his reputation as one of the most important magic realist poets writing today.

The Creation of the Night Sky: Poems

Mariner Books

Nicholas Christopher has been praised as one of America’s most important poets by such literary talents as John Ashbery, Charles Simic, James Merrill, and Anthony Hecht. Crossing the Equator collects Christopher’s best work from the past three decades and includes a section of new poems that are among his finest. Cold missiles and a rain of embers accompany the men who slide like shadows into the city faces mud-smeared stones for teeth no eyes who slit the throats of everyone they encounter until breaking down my door they drag me into the darkness that floods the corridor and lock me in an icy chamber ―from "THE LAST HOURS OF LAÓDIKÊ, SISTER OF HEKTOR"

Crossing The Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004

Ecco

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