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City creates and animates its own unique zone of attention. This 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. --Sven Birkerts Lennon gives a pleasant voice to this emerging genre. --Booklist Lennon's sheer playfullness with form . . . wins us over. . . . This book's roundabout poetics hits the spot. --Rain Taxi 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. --Publishers Weekly What makes City, /i> so rare is that it is a carefully constructed, theoretically informed, brilliantly thought book with . . . heart. --Hyde Park Review of Books A book of lyric phenomenology . . . A fiercely smart, quixotic book that demands slow and careful scrutiny. --Georgia Review The most experimental of the books to have won [the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction]. --Fourth Genre

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

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

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Brian Lennon was born in 1971 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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