Green and Gray / Geoffrey G O'Brien; ed. by Geoffrey G. O'Brien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Brien, Geoffrey G, Author.

Contributor:

O'Brien, Geoffrey G., Editor.

Series:

New California Poetry

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (102 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2007]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Geoffrey G. O'Brien's second collection documents the "remorse of the senses" that attends each moment of experience, the pain and pleasure of not exiting a world in which injustice and distraction secure every sensual event. Attempting to reestablish experience as something other than complicity, these poems insist on "desiring that which is as if it were not," making poetry out of neighborhood flyers, the Patriot Act, and the poverty of presidential speech. Given this mandate to stay within limited resources, Green and Gray makes a virtue of refusing to abandon them, often relying on an emphatic recirculation of words and phrases to generate its own system complexities. These are poems whose materials remember their former use: the gray of the city and the green it used to be.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

GREEN AND GRAY

Some Versions of

Paraphrase of Aragon

Three Seasons

The New

The Bulletin of Lyon

A Diffcult Summary

In Re Others

Logic of Confession

Realia

Ur

Man of Joy

Fountain

Revaluation of Purple

On the Phantom Estate

Objects in Portraits

To Be out of Sweden and

Alieniloquy

Amorous Poem

Beginnings of Rounds

Deer Isle

At the Changing Villa

A Word with a Poem around It

Several Endless Statements

Ajar

False Neutral

A Little Object

Spring Struggle

How a Cat Returns

In Gardens Where Saints Meet

Sent Past Exhibits

Prior to Assent

A Calendar

Written on a Column

Mixed Mode

They Met Only in the Evenings

Wall of Men and Women

The Nature of Encounters

This Partly Imaginary Tale

Hysteron Proteron

To Classes

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)

ISBN:

9780520940437

OCLC:

1408682101