A01=Geoffrey G. O'Brien
aesthetics
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american poetry
Author_Geoffrey G. O'Brien
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beauty in the mundane
bohemian grove
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contemporary poetry
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daily life
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humanity
iambic prose
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material culture
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prosody
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social commentary
social networks
social relations
society
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thing theory
vague cadence
war
Product details
- ISBN 9780520268876
- Weight: 181g
- Dimensions: 152 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 02 Mar 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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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.'
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.
