Its Shadow Rakes the Grass

Bill Christophersen grew up in the Bronx and studied poetry at Columbia University, where he received a doctorate in American literature. He is the author of five previous poetry collections—Two Men Fighting in a Landscape, The Dicer’s Cup, Tableau with Crash Helmet, Where Truth Lies, and Why the Gods Don’t Get It—as well as two literary studies, The Apparition in the Glass: Charles Brockden Brown’s American Gothic and Resurrecting Leather-Stocking: Pathfinding in Jacksonian America.

His book reviews and critical essays have appeared in Newsweek, Poetry, The New Leader, The New York Times Book Review, and The American Book Review. His poems have won prizes from Kansas Quarterly, Rhino, and The Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. He lives in New York and plays traditional fiddle.

Paperback: 110 pages
Publisher: Kelsay Books (June 14, 2023)