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Poems that reimagine poetry's ancient dream of collective life from within the nightmare and necessities of our present.
List of contents
Contents
Glass
Poem for Now and Later
Experience in Groups
After England
Chroma
The Middle Distance
Translations from the Occitan
Fidelio
Argus
Sonnets So Far
Valentine Avenue
Nothing, Everything
Elegy
May
Another Poem
Brighton Beach
Experience in Groups
1956–
For Those Still About To
A Downward Motion
We Are Home
Sweet Timothy
My Complaint
Another Elegy
Quick Trip
Experience in Groups
About the author
Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of
Experience in Groups (Wave Books, forthcoming 2018) and
People on Sunday (Wave Books, 2013), as well as the author of
Metropole (2011),
Green and Gray (2007), and
The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from The University of California Press. His chapbooks included
Hesiod (Song Cave, 2010) and
Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions, 2010). He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of
Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O’Brien (Minus A Press, 2012) and (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of
2A (Quemadura, 2006). O’Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.
