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.
Foreword by Jane Hirshfield
Acknowledgements 2
Little Litany 4
I. Litany for the City 5
Philadelphia, 1976 6
Vespers 8
The Cabinet of Things Swallowed 11
Dear Doctor Franklin 13
Hard Light through Hemlock 15
Ars Poetica 18
Dear Doctor Franklin 21
The City that Swallowed the Sea 23
Cathedrals 25
Dear Doctor Franklin 27
A Sunday Box 30
Notes on the Twenty-first Century 31
Ode, Elegy, Aubade, Psalm 33
Strange Elegy 35
Ephesians 37
Vigils 38
Ode to a Hawk with Wings Burning 41
II. Foreign Films 44
Foreign Film at the Garman Opera House 45
Cinéma Vérité 47
Foreign Film at the Ritz at the Bourse 49
III. Metropolitan Suite 51
