The guns and flags project / by Geoffrey G. O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Geoffrey G. (Geoffrey Gordon), 1969- author.

Series:

New California poetry.

New California poetry

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (97 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley ; Los Angeles ; London : University of California Press, [2002]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Obsessed with work and dream, shot through with weather and color, Geoffrey G. O'Brien's spirited debut pursues the possibility of the lyric itself - whether the voice raised ""with melodies/and thinking"" can be rescued from the ongoing disaster of progress.

Contents:

Acknowledgments; The Premiere of Reappearance; Second Shift; Absence of the Archbishop; Solubility; Isabel's First House; Thoughts of a Judge; Eloign; Early Description; The Sentry-Box; Parts of a House; Tale with a Cascading Moral; Excelsior; Observations on the Florida Question; Reverent Estimations; Palinode; Two Philosophers; Plants Waving in Different Directions; In the Idle Style; The Truth in Italy; Standing before Paintings; Constantly So Near; An Unusual Optimism; Stanzas from Oliveira's Third Dream; Man Called Aerodynamics; Of a Pressing Nature; A Soldier's Uniform; The Guestbook

The White Mare SodalityNotes from the Trial of K.; Vinteuil's Little Phrase; Blue Rider School; The State's Only Child; The State's Only Child; Portrait of the X Family; Invention of Laughter; Second Summer; Omertá; Winter Rose

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-297).

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-23145-7

1-59734-644-6

0-520-92456-8

0-520-93614-0

0-520-21782-9

OCLC:

614535724