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Metropole: Volume 33

Metropole: Volume 33

O'Brien, Geoffrey G.

Paperback

Series: New California Poetry, Book 33

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0520268873
ISBN13: 9780520268876
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Mar 2 2011
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.80
Language: English
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.

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