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Crossing the Equator (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

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Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems, 1972-2004 is Nicholas Christopher's eighth collection of poetry. His first collection, On Tour with Rita, was published in 1982. Over the years, Christopher has been praised for the Magical Realism that seems to inhabit his poems. While his first collection was not published until 1982, the poet has been writing poems that dazzle since the early 1970's. As a freshman at Harvard University in 1969, Christopher won admission into a class taught by Robert Lowell, based on the quality of the poems that he was writing at the...

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