Brooklyn ave. Hymnal Hellas hier! 'Like a sculptor releasing the

'Like a sculptor releasing the figure from the stone

no soul ascends to commune with a vengeful deity: salvation is not achieved from bodily punishment but found in the poetic possibility that emerges from the corporeal tension between tactility and spirituality

' - de Volkskrant

He suffered Nazi murder and I think Warsh

Joost Zwagerman

Brooklyn ave. Hymnal Hellas hier! 'Like a sculptor releasing theAndy Riley Brooklyn ave. Hymnal, Andy Rileys full length debut, is a poem written over a year spent living in an attic in Seattles University District. Finding himself in socially and sexually freer environs the poet makes his way across town, commuting to school, watching the seasons, getting sick, being burned by lovers, and always keeping an eye on the city he loves. Andy Riley is a poet living in Seattle, Washington. He grew up on the front range