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by Margaret Ryan (Author)
This beautiful chapbook of 17 poems, many in print for the first time, explores Ryan's love affair with New York City. From her home on the Upper West Side, Ryan captures the feel of the shops and buildings in her neighborhood and connects them to the public art of the city at large. The parks, statuary, hospitals, and playgrounds of both young and old burst alive from the pages of this tightly-wrought and beautifully-made volume.
Author Biography
Margaret Ryan's poetry has appeared in major publications, including The Nation, The Paris Review, Poetry, and Barrow Street, as well as many small presses: Beloit Poetry Journal, Epoch, Kansas Quarerly, and more. She has won several awards from the Poetry Society of America., and two grants from the New York State Foundation for the Arts (NYFA). Her work has appeared in many anthologies including The Pushcart Prize. She has published two prior volumes of poetry, Filling out a Life (Front Street Press) and Black Raspberries (Parsonage Press), as well as How to Write a Poem (Franklin-Watts) and Extraordinary Poetry Writing (Scholastic). Ms. Ryan lives in Manhattan with her husband.
