Litany for the City - Brossura

Teitman, Ryan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1934414808 ISBN 13: 9781934414804

Casa editrice: Boa Editions, 2012

Riassunto

"This is a powerful first collection by a very promising new writer—successfully announcing what will hopefully be a long-lasting presence in contemporary poetry."—MARY: A Journal for New Writing

Selected by Jane Hirshfield from over six hundred manuscripts, Litany for the City is the winner of the tenth annual A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize. Of Litany for the City, Hirshfield writes, "This book carries both startling imaginative freedoms and the impulsion of a person navigating the terrain of his life by means of the star-chart and sextant of poems––a winning combination, for me."

Ryan Teitman is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He holds an MA and MFA from Indiana University. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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Recensione:

In many ways this is a book of devotion, a set of prayers to a world that is both ugly and beautiful full of sorrow, joy and the bizarre a powerful first collection by a very promising new writer successfully announcing what will hopefully be a long-lasting presence in contemporary poetry.”
Mary: A Journal of New Writing

"Things are changed by how they are used. Even the hot breath of a resolute sigh, trapped under a blanket at the moment of waking transforms into a 'coat of warmth / that I knew could / never fray.'" Southern Indiana Review

Litany for the City embodies the scope and complexity of an urban setting, as well as the emotive depth and wonder it is to be human. In the end, it is only this muddled and luscious reside of experience with its form fading into fume that one is left with, and Teitman proves it is more than enough.” Todd McCarty, Gently Read Literature

Teitman maps the way only a poet can map, sketching in then blurring out the borders between inner and outer with each line. It is the poetic act of noticing that finds cathedrals everywhere. And language, repetition, is what holds it all together This book has a heart that goes beyond the strength of its crafting or imagery. It reminds us of what only poetry can do."—The Rumpus

L'autore:

Ryan Teitman: Ryan Teitman was born in Philadelphia and is a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford University. He received his BA from Penn State University and worked as a newspaper reporter in and around Philadelphia before receiving an MFA and MA from Indiana University. His poems have appeared in Crab Orchard Review, Mid-American Review, Ninth Letter, Sycamore Review, and Washington Square, among other publications. He currently lives in Berkeley, California.

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• Editore: Boa Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1934414808
• ISBN 13: 9781934414804
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 79