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New California Poetry #20: Green and Grayby Geoffrey G Obrien
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:"O'Brien writes meditative poetry at the highest level. The thinking here is not 'about' anything; rather thinking becomes a modality of being within which the potential of lyric situations unfolds and takes on delightful intensities. These are not poems to interpret but to explore for how the mind attentive to the full resources of lyric traditions stretches the senses and therefore finds itself more truly and more strange."--Charles Altieri "Green and Gray is a gem of poetic invention. There is a palpable exuberance in the way Geoffrey G. O'Brien confronts and celebrates the enigmas of being and perception. Ineluctable and Unpredictable stroll and swerve across these pages like Stan and Ollie, Krazy Kat and Ignatz, Hamm and Clov, Deleuze and Guattari, reveling at once in the music of thought and the music of chance. Best of all, we are invited to join them."--Michael Palmer, author of Company of Moths Review:"O'Brien's much-loved debut, The Guns and Flag's Project, introduced a showy, meditative voice with a slippery edge and a certain standoffishness. O'Brien's follow-up tops that book and shows its author firmly at the controls of his poems, most of which are cast in even columns: life as the scrim of language permits us to live it, as 'an experience of experience.' Words themselves are always positioned in the foreground of these poems — by limiting the vocabulary, repeating words or phrases or by drawing attention to the ways they don't add up — and O'Brien finds in them the measure of our personal and political lives. Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Patriot Act ('there are such warehouses/ the future may be detained among'), a sestina with dauntingly common repeating end words ('where, then, when, there, what, that'), or in flat-out theory ('The world occurs as time enforces it'), O'Brien shows himself to be capable of portraying the muddled traffic of life in the Internet age." Publishers Weekly (Starred Review) (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
About the AuthorGeoffrey G. O'Brien is a Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of The Guns and Flags Project (UC Press). Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Some Versions of Paraphrase of Aragon Three Seasons The New The Bulletin of Lyon A Difficult 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 What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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