
Metropole
Geoffrey G. O'Brien(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Will be published approx. on 2. March 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-520-26887-6 (ISBN)
Description
Geoffrey G. O'Brien's third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O'Brien's poems measure the 'vague cadence' of daily life, testing both the value and limits of art in a time of vanishing publics and permanent war. The long title poem, written in a strict iambic prose, charts the disappearance of the poetic into the prosaic, of meter into the mundane, while reactivating the very possibilities it mourns: O'Brien's prosody invests the prose of things with the intensities of verse. In the charged space of this hybrid form, objects become subjects and sense pivots mid-sentence into song: 'The sun revolves around the earth revolves around the sun.'
Reviews / Votes
"The New California Poetry series has served poetry as Silicon Valley serves the software industry, offering consistent innovation, and O'Brien's Metropole is one of the best of their books." -- Ed Skoog Los Angeles Review Of Books "Ambitious and highly self-conscious poems... If O'Brien's poems are becoming increasingly resistant to, if not combative with, their readers, their rewards are also growing richer for readers willing to engage in the poems' arguments." Publishers WeeklyMore details
Series
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-26887-6 (9780520268876)
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Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Metropole
E-Book
03/2011
1st Edition
Naval Institute Press
€26.49
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Person
Geoffrey G. O'Brien teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley and at San Quentin State Prison. He is the author of Green and Gray and The Guns and Flags Project, both available from University of California Press.
Content
Acknowledgments Vague Cadence Bohemian Grove Poem Beginning to End Left Behind Poem with No Good Lines Failed Catalog Forms of Battle Three Years The Other Arts White of the Eyes Folie a Deux Ambien Old War Injury Ecstatic Norm Having Since Moved On Restricted Palette The Sutterlin Method Dizzy Procession Street Cry To Be Read in Either Direction Metropole