Christopher Schmidt
THE NEXT IN LINE

Slope Editions
ISBN 10: 0-9777698-3-6
ISBN 13: 978-0-9777698-3-4
Paper, c. 83 pp., 5.5x8.5
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Winner of the 6th Annual Slope Editions
Book Prize, judged by Timothy Liu.

The Next in Line, Christopher Schmidt’s provocative debut volume, tracks the poet’s coming of age in jagged sparkling lyrics that reflect New York City’s speed and crush. Tartly seductive, these poems admit an erotic pessimism — “the metallics of love” — overcome by a desiring line too in love with life’s eccentricities to brood. By turns glamorously elusive and arousingly direct, The Next in Line cuts through poetic cant with the sharp knowledge of what “sentiments exact.”
 
Author bio:
Christopher Schmidt studies and teaches at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York.  He lives in Brooklyn.

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