City by Brian Lennon

City by Brian Lennon

Though classified as creative nonfiction, City is an open genre piece that reads with the rhythm and beauty of poetry. Despite its sometimes philosophical core, occasionally pausing to ponder Kierkegaardian dilemmas, it maintains linguistic grace and self-reflexivity.

City creates and animates its own unique zone of attentionThis is the true biography of artistic sensibility, the subtly receptive medium that registers the world in carefully graded exposures, which are then arranged into the first anticipations of larger meaning.

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Lennon gives a pleasant voice to this emerging genre.

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Lennon's sheer playfullness with form . . . wins us over. . . . This book's roundabout poetics hits the spot.

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Lennon's always capital 'C' City is New York, and his flaneur-like speaker haunts the Upper West Side with a calm belied by the above quote, like 'the entire sky revolving on the pin of the sun, revealing now serenity, now rage.' Carefully registering everything from 'Warm body air pouring from collar' to, when on an Italian trip, 'Bernini's fish-men tooting water from ornaments,' he builds this verse essay from the ground up.

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What makes City,/i> so rare is that it is a carefully constructed, theoretically informed, brilliantly thought book with . . . heart.

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A book of lyric phenomenology . . . A fiercely smart, quixotic book that demands slow and careful scrutiny.

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The most experimental of the books to have won [the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction].

BRIAN LENNON was born in New York City and educated at Wesleyan University, the University of Iowa, and Columbia University, where he is a doctoral candidate in English and comparative literature.

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ISBN 13	9780820341033
ISBN 10	0820341037
Title	City
Author	Brian Lennon
Series	The Sue William Silverman Prize For Creative Nonfiction
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	University of Georgia Press
Year published	2011-07-30
Number of pages	112
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.