
People on Sunday
Geoffrey G. O'Brien(Author)
Wave Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 19. September 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
978-1-933517-72-8 (ISBN)
Description
"O'Brien's [is] a poetry that asks for patient attention, and gives back all the void's abundance."--Rain Taxi "Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Patriot Act, a sestina with dauntingly common repeating end words, or in flat-out theory, O'Brien shows himself to be capable of portraying the muddled traffic of life in the Internet age."--Publishers Weekly (starred review for Metropole) In his most autobiographical collection to date, Geoffrey G. O'Brien explores--via the "promise of happiness" in great works of art--the dream of a working freedom not relegated to Sundays. Crossing traditional poetic material with contemporary political struggle, O'Brien captures the complex feelings of the present. Here again just a few minutes To see what we've done with what they let us have. Like spring in Washington, D.C. The way we're taught to imagine days As reprieves from other days, cherries snowing Inexpressiveness, the nation's capital An experience of how it is to be Caught up in pink and white again. Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from University of California Press.
He is the co-author (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O'Brien (Minus A Press, 2012). O'Brien teaches at UC Berkeley and also for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
He is the co-author (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O'Brien (Minus A Press, 2012). O'Brien teaches at UC Berkeley and also for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 132 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-933517-72-8 (9781933517728)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from The University of California Press. His chapbooks include Hesiod (Song Cave, 2010), and Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions, 2010). He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O'Brien (Minus A Press, 2012) and (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A (Quemadura, 2006). O'Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
Content
Contents
Four Last Songs
At the Edge of the Bed
Thanatopsis
Materia
D'Haussonville
Series
Distraction
From Honey to Ashes
Suleiman
Tales of Unrest
Series
Hesiod
Mark
Entheogen
Second Intensity
People on Sunday (1930)
Series
Christopher Smart
The Names of Production
Series
Six Political Criteria
Winterreise
The Flagstad Recording
Four Last Songs
At the Edge of the Bed
Thanatopsis
Materia
D'Haussonville
Series
Distraction
From Honey to Ashes
Suleiman
Tales of Unrest
Series
Hesiod
Mark
Entheogen
Second Intensity
People on Sunday (1930)
Series
Christopher Smart
The Names of Production
Series
Six Political Criteria
Winterreise
The Flagstad Recording