O'Brien, Geoffrey G

Berkeley . 2007. April 2007. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9780520250192. New California Poetry, 20. 102 pages. paperback. keywords: Poetry America. FROM THE PUBLISHER - 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 - Acknowledgments; 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. inventory #36411 ISBN: 9780520250192.