Dan Chelotti is the author of x (McSweeney’s 2013) and two chapbooks, The Eights (Poetry Society of America 2006) and Compost (Greying Ghost 2015). He is an associate professor of English at Elms College.
Summer 2012
The Capital World: Geoffrey Nutter’s Christopher Sunset
Thomas Merton claimed that “there is in all visible things an invisible fecundity, a dimmed light, a meek namelessnes, a hidden wholeness.” Geoffrey Nutter’s poems accept this proposition, and try very hard to reveal this hidden wholeness—not by questioning the meaning of things, but by striving to see past the very stuff of the world.