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Zusatztext "Ambitious and highly self-conscious poems. . . . If O'Brien's poems are becoming increasingly resistant to! if not combative with! their readers! their rewards are also growing richer for readers willing to engage in the poems' arguments." Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext A set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. It measures the 'vague cadence' of daily life! testing both the value and limits of art in a time of vanishing publics and permanent war. Zusammenfassung 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.” Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
