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City: An Essay - Paperback By Lennon, Brian - Like New
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- Unbranded
- MPN
- Does not apply
- ISBN
- 9780820341033
- Book Title
- City : an Essay
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Original Language
- English
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Publication Year
- 2011
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Genre
- Travel, History, Literary Collections, Social Science
- Topic
- United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Essays & Travelogues, Essays, Sociology / Urban
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Item Weight
- 9.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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How do we come to know a place, and in seeking to know it do we make it foreign from ourselves? Do we tackle it from other perspectives--the excavator, the traveler, the observant witness? Can we know a place without the blur of our identity, or does the attempt to extricate ourselves from the external lead only deeper? Brian Lennon seeks such knowledge in this rare and revolutionary work that blends poetry with narrative, ethnography with autobiography, and philosophy with literature. City: An Essay begins and ends with meditations on place, the first an unusual and intriguing excavation of the underground depths and history of New York City and the conclusion a travelogue of Italy that reads like snapshots. But place comes to reside somewhere within the landscape of the imagination. 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 is a unique and unmatched experimental work by an emerging and sophisticated writer who is paving exciting new aesthetic and theoretical roads.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
ISBN-10
0820341037
ISBN-13
9780820341033
eBay Product ID (ePID)
109329137
Product Key Features
Book Title
City : an Essay
Original Language
English
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Essays & Travelogues, Essays, Sociology / Urban
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Travel, History, Literary Collections, Social Science
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Series Volume Number
6
Reviews
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. Lennon gives a pleasant voice to this emerging genre. Lennon's sheer playfullness with form . . . wins us over. . . . This book's roundabout poetics hits the spot. 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. What makes City,/i> so rare is that it is a carefully constructed, theoretically informed, brilliantly thought book with . . . heart. A book of lyric phenomenology . . . A fiercely smart, quixotic book that demands slow and careful scrutiny. The most experimental of the books to have won [the AWP Award Series in Creative Nonfiction]., "A book of lyric phenomenology . . . A fiercely smart, quixotic book that demands slow and careful scrutiny."-- Georgia Review, "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, "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, "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, " 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
Copyright Date
2002
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
814/.6
Series
The Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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