I Speak of the City: Poems of New York

Edited by Stephen Wolf

Paper, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14065-2
$24.95

September, 2007
Cloth, 352 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-14064-5
$50.00 / £29.50

"A rich poetic hymnal to New York, with an excellent breadth of poets." — Natalie Whittle, Financial Times Weekend Magazine

"A wonderful series of snapshots - impressions through verse—of our city." — New York Post

"[I Speak of the City] reminds jaded New Yorkers that some people can find poetry in the magnificent and the mundane." — Sam Roberts, New York Times

"Other U.S. cities have nourished their share of wonderful poets, but New York City is unique as a breeding ground and literary capital, a magnet for genius and talent. You'll find old favorites and splendid surprises alike in Stephen Wolf's lovingly assembled anthology. I Speak of the City is an unadulterated treat." — David Lehman, editor of The Oxford Anthology of American Poetry

Related Subjects

• New York City
• Poetry

About the Author

Born in Chicago and with a doctorate from the University of Illinois, Stephen Wolf moved to the Lower East Side in 1977, blocks from where his grandparents once lived. His fiction has appeared in Playboy, Ploughshares, and the anthology American Families, and his story cycle Intimate Articles, with illustrations by Larry Rivers, was published by Ten Speed Press. He teaches literature and the humanities at Berkeley College in New York City.

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