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Metropole

By O'Brien , Geoffrey Gordon

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0520268873, 978-0-520-26887-6, 9780520948273, 0520948270, 9781283277532, 1283277530
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1636262 bytes)
Series
New California poetry 33
Pages
99\109
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American poetry -- 21st century. POETRY -- America

Description

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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