Atomic Field: Two Poems

by Nicholas Christopher and Cleo Qian

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151005532
• ISBN13: 9780151005536
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

Not for the realist.

Atomic Field: Two Poems is an epic adventure into the childhood of Nicholas Christopher. Each extended poem is made up of forty-five parts and each part describes events within a particular year. The first poem is look at the experiences of a young boy growing up in 1962. Christopher succeeds in presenting several images that are vivid, surreal and truly capture the mind of a child. The second poem is a success as well, delving into different adolescent experiences a decade later in 1972. As in Christophers previous poetry the images are crisp, and he achieves a very authentic voice. This entire collections reads in a dream-like manner so successfully woven together one can hardly put it down.