Litany for the City
By Ryan Teitman and Jane Hirshfield
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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 poemsa 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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Litany for the City - Ryan Teitman
Litany for the City
by
Ryan Teitman
Winner, 2011 A. Poulin, Jr. Poetry Prize
Selected by Jane Hirshfield
Litany for the City
Poems by
Ryan Teitman
Foreword by Jane Hirshfield
A. POULIN, JR. NEW POETS OF AMERICA SERIES, NO. 34
BOA Editions, Ltd. Rochester, NY 2012
Copyright © 2012 by Ryan Teitman
Foreword © 2012 by Jane Hirshfield
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Teitman, Ryan T.
Litany for the city / by Ryan Teitman. — 1st ed.
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For my parents
CONTENTS
Foreword
I. Litany for the City
Philadelphia, 1976
Vespers
The Cabinet of Things Swallowed
Dear Doctor Franklin
Hard Light Through Hemlock
Ars Poetica
Dear Doctor Franklin
Cathedrals
Dear Doctor Franklin
A Sunday Box
Notes on the Twenty-first Century
Ode, Elegy, Aubade, Psalm
Strange Elegy
Ephesians
Vigils
Ode to a Hawk with Wings Burning
II. Foreign Films
Foreign Film at the Garman Opera House
The City That Swallowed the Sea
Foreign Film at the Ritz at the Bourse
III. Metropolitan Suite
Metropolitan Suite
Circles
Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Colophon
FOREWORD
I want to find the line // where the city becomes the city, / where invention becomes instrument,
Ryan Teitman writes, in Litany for the City, a first book muscular with transformation. Invention is Ryan Teitman’s clay—phrase after phrase coins startling newness out of