LEADER 03645nam 2200889 a 450 001 9910810350203321 005 20240513185859.0 010 $a1-283-27753-0 010 $a9786613277534 010 $a0-520-94827-0 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520948273 035 $a(CKB)2560000000055544 035 $a(EBL)656363 035 $a(OCoLC)703138069 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000471316 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11282436 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000471316 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10429170 035 $a(PQKB)10967717 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC656363 035 $a(DE-B1597)520839 035 $a(OCoLC)707292092 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520948273 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL656363 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10446266 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327753 035 $a(EXLCZ)992560000000055544 100 $a20100805d2011 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aMetropole /$fGeoffrey G. O'Brien 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBerkeley $cUniversity of California Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (109 p.) 225 1 $aNew California poetry ;$v33 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-520-26887-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tVague Cadence -- $tBohemian Grove -- $tPoem Beginning to End -- $tLeft Behind -- $tPoem with No Good Lines -- $tFailed Catalog -- $tForms of Battle -- $tThree Years -- $tThe Other Arts -- $tWhite of the Eyes -- $tFolie ŕ Deux -- $tAmbien -- $tOld War Injury -- $tEcstatic Norm -- $tHaving Since Moved On -- $tRestricted Palette -- $tThe Sütterlin Method -- $tDizzy Procession -- $tStreet Cry -- $tTo Be Read in Either Direction -- $tMetropole -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aGeoffrey G. O'Brien's third collection opens with a set of lyric experiments whose music and mutable syntax explore the social relations concealed in material things. O'Brien's poems measure the "vague cadence" of daily life, testing both the value and limits of art in a time of vanishing publics and permanent war. The long title poem, written in a strict iambic prose, charts the disappearance of the poetic into the prosaic, of meter into the mundane, while reactivating the very possibilities it mourns: O'Brien's prosody invests the prose of things with the intensities of verse. In the charged space of this hybrid form, objects become subjects and sense pivots mid-sentence into song: "The sun revolves around the earth revolves around the sun." 410 0$aNew California poetry ;$v33. 606 $aAmerican poetry$y21st century 610 $aaesthetics. 610 $aamerican poetry. 610 $abeauty in the mundane. 610 $abohemian grove. 610 $acontemporary poetry. 610 $adaily life. 610 $ahumanity. 610 $aiambic prose. 610 $amaterial culture. 610 $ametropole. 610 $amundane. 610 $apoem beginning to end. 610 $apoetic form. 610 $apoetic meter. 610 $apoetry. 610 $aprosody. 610 $asocial commentary. 610 $asocial networks. 610 $asocial relations. 610 $asociety. 610 $athing theory. 610 $avague cadence. 610 $awar. 615 0$aAmerican poetry 676 $a811/.6 700 $aO'Brien$b Geoffrey G$g(Geoffrey Gordon),$f1969-$01645060 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910810350203321 996 $aMetropole$94032831 997 $aUNINA