In a Mist
Published on 15. March 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
82 pages
978-1-84861-360-7 (ISBN)
Description
"The spare, elegiac poems in Geoffrey O'Brien's new collection move at the borderline between actual memory and screen memory. I love their chiseled intimate strangeness. Reading them I discover such marvels as 'shivers of light/Clashing/ or 'Not knowing who/or what we are/ we at least know when.' A pervading sense of loss envelops many of his finest poems in a mist of elliptical particles produced by distance. His language, echoing the best moments of his poetic film criticism, offers up fugitive ghost words and spectral syllables - dreamed or imagined. 'The shop is shuttered/ and the yard so quiet/you can hear the noise/of shadows vanishing.'" - Susan Howe
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Language
English
Place of publication
Exeter
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
116 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84861-360-7 (9781848613607)
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Person
Geoffrey O'Brien was born in New York City. His poetry has been collected previously in six collections, including Early Autumn (2009) and Floating City: Selected Poems 1978-1995. He is also the author of a number of prose works including Hardboiled America: Lurid Paperbacks And The Masters of Noir, Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film, 2002-2012, and The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America. He is editor-in-chief of The Library of America.