Experience in Groups sings and thinks the forms of belonging that organize our lives, offering poems that move with honesty and formal intelligence between the individual and the collective. In a time of ascendant fascism and creative political resistance, O'Brien's work demands that an elegy, love poem, and a sonnet sequence become occasions where personal tragedies and joys find a pattern and a place within national and global struggle.

About the Author

Geoffrey G. O'Brienis the author ofExperience in Groups(Wave Books, forthcoming 2018) andPeople on Sunday(Wave Books, 2013), as well as the author ofMetropole(2011),Green and Gray(2007), andThe Guns and Flags Project(2002), all from The University of California Press. His chapbooks included Hesiod(Song Cave, 2010) andPoem with No Good Lines(Hand Held Editions, 2010).He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) ofThree Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O'Brien(Minus A Press, 2012) and (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of2A(Quemadura, 2006). O'Brien is an Associate Professor in the English Department at UC Berkeley and also teaches for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.

Book Information
ISBN 9781940696669
Author Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books