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Series title: | New California Poetry Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-283-27753-2 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2011 |
Publisher: | University of California Press
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | USD $26.95 |
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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...
More DescriptionGeoffrey 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."