Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004

Nicholas Christopher. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), $24 (226pp) ISBN 978-0-15-101095-0

Drawing from 32 years and seven-plus books of poems, Crossing the Equator: New and Selected Poems 1972-2004 offers broad swaths of Nicholas Christopher's peripatetic career. Novels like Veronica and A Trip to the Stars are left out in favor of work from the verse novella Desperate Characters and nine new poems, two of which are serial works, like ""Ultima Thule"": ""Drawing into the dusk/ the cartographer discovered his lines/ took on a life of their own.""

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