03645nam 2200889 a 450 991081035020332120240513185859.01-283-27753-097866132775340-520-94827-010.1525/9780520948273(CKB)2560000000055544(EBL)656363(OCoLC)703138069(SSID)ssj0000471316(PQKBManifestationID)11282436(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471316(PQKBWorkID)10429170(PQKB)10967717(MiAaPQ)EBC656363(DE-B1597)520839(OCoLC)707292092(DE-B1597)9780520948273(Au-PeEL)EBL656363(CaPaEBR)ebr10446266(CaONFJC)MIL327753(EXLCZ)99256000000005554420100805d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrMetropole /Geoffrey G. O'Brien1st ed.Berkeley University of California Press20111 online resource (109 p.)New California poetry ;33Description based upon print version of record.0-520-26887-3 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Vague Cadence -- Bohemian Grove -- Poem Beginning to End -- Left Behind -- Poem with No Good Lines -- Failed Catalog -- Forms of Battle -- Three Years -- The Other Arts -- White of the Eyes -- Folie à Deux -- Ambien -- Old War Injury -- Ecstatic Norm -- Having Since Moved On -- Restricted Palette -- The Sütterlin Method -- Dizzy Procession -- Street Cry -- To Be Read in Either Direction -- Metropole -- AcknowledgmentsGeoffrey 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."New California poetry ;33.American poetry21st centuryaesthetics.american poetry.beauty in the mundane.bohemian grove.contemporary poetry.daily life.humanity.iambic prose.material culture.metropole.mundane.poem beginning to end.poetic form.poetic meter.poetry.prosody.social commentary.social networks.social relations.society.thing theory.vague cadence.war.American poetry811/.6O'Brien Geoffrey G(Geoffrey Gordon),1969-1645060MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910810350203321Metropole4032831UNINA