Brooklyn ave. Hymnal, Andy Riley, Pilot Press, 2025, 14.9 x 21 cm, 90 pages, PB , ISBN: 9781068758669
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Brooklyn ave. Hymnal, Andy Riley’s full-length debut, is a poem written over a year spent living in an attic in Seattle’s 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 in Colorado and in rural Nebraska. He currently attends Seattle University pursuing a degree in Asian Studies.


‘This billowing serial-poem softens your attention, so that when its subliminal and restrained music peaks its head up in overt rhyme, it takes your breath away. It is remarkable.’ — Robert Kiely

‘Brooklyn ave. Hymnal opens like a hand, and curves to scoop up the life that drifts by it. This book-length poem is a sculpture made of lyric. Warm, light, and moving, I could read it over and over. Every time it will be different.’ — Sholto Buck

'It can be tricky getting the ‘long poem’ right, but Andy Riley nails it. Brooklyn ave. Hymnal meanders so brilliantly up those uncertain boulevards of the mind and the heart. There is such triumph to this poem, to its earnestness; to its horniness; to its loneliness; to its keen yet defensive intelligence that just breaks you open.' 
— Al Anderson

‘In Brooklyn ave. Hymnal Andy Riley gives us the daily explosions of being, cradled in language. This book is a welcoming of those daily light shows. Some excellent gutter-stars shit. I loved being in its company.’ — D Mortimer

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