Metropole / Geoffrey G. O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Series:

New California poetry ; 33.

New California poetry ; 33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--21st century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (109 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

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

Acknowledgments

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9786613277534

9781283277532

1283277530

9780520948273

0520948270

OCLC:

703138069