Brian Tierney is the author of Rise and Float, which was selected by Randall Mann as winner of the Jake Adam York Prize. His poetry and prose have appeared in or are forthcoming in the Paris Review, AGNI, the Kenyon Review, the New England Review, the Adroit Journal, and others. A graduate of the Bennington Writing Seminars, he is a former Wallace Stegner Fellow in poetry at Stanford and winner of the Poetry Society of America's 2018 George Bogin Memorial Award. He grew up in Philadelphia and currently lives in Oakland, where he teaches poetry at The Writing Salon.
Contents
Migraine
Howard Johnson's
Rorschach #1
Greystone Park
Eleven
Cottman Avenue House Party
Bulimia
Ideation
Time and Tide
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Nothing Has Passed Between Us But Time
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Episode
Hearses
Polyphagia
To The Reasoning Of Eternal Voices
The Fly In The Bottle
Tailpipe
Tied Islands
Earth Is Not A Door
Bridge
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Preamble With A Pilgrimage Inside
Fixing A Hole
Felled Cherry Plum
Breakdown
All Stars Are Lights, Not All Lights Are Stars
Judas
Whatever Rises Becomes A Light
Wormhole
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Anthropocene
You're The One I Wanna Watch The Last Ships Go Down With