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- catalog abstract ""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 (fantasticfiction.co.uk).".
- catalog contributor b3625387.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""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 (fantasticfiction.co.uk).".
- catalog extent "xii, 81 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "In the year of the comet.".
- catalog identifier "0140154507 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "In the year of the comet.".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Penguin Books,".
- catalog relation "In the year of the comet.".
- catalog subject "811/.54 20".
- catalog subject "PS3553.H754 I5 1992b".
- catalog title "In the year of the comet : poems / by Nicholas Christopher.".
- catalog type "text".