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."
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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.
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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 à Deux
Ambien
Old War Injury
Ecstatic Norm
Having Since Moved On
Restricted Palette
The Sütterlin Method
Dizzy Procession
Street Cry
To Be Read in Either Direction
Metropole
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Metropole
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EAN
9780520948273
ISBN
978-0-520-94827-3
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E-Book (epub)
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Herausgeber
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02.03.2011
Digitaler Kopierschutz
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0.37 MB
Anzahl Seiten
112
Jahr
2011
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Englisch
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1. Auflage
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