"O'Brien's [is] a poetry that asks for patient attention, and gives back all the void's abundance."--Rain Taxi "Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Patriot Act, a sestina with dauntingly common repeating end words, or in flat-out theory, O'Brien shows himself to be capable of portraying the muddled traffic of life in the Internet age."--Publishers Weekly (starred review for Metropole) In his most autobiographical collection to date, Geoffrey G. O'Brien explores--via the "promise of happiness" in great works of art--the dream of a working freedom not relegated to Sundays. Crossing traditional poetic material with contemporary political struggle, O'Brien captures the complex feelings of the present. Here again just a few minutes To see what we've done with what they let us have. Like spring in Washington, D.C. The way we're taught to imagine days As reprieves from other days, cherries snowing Inexpressiveness, the nation's capital An experience of how it is to be Caught up in pink and white again. Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from University of California Press. He is the co-author (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O'Brien (Minus A Press, 2012). O'Brien teaches at UC Berkeley and also for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.

* O'Brien plans to travel extensively to give readings (he will be on sabbatical in Fall 2013), including travel to colleges and bookstores in the northeast, the California Bay Area, Seattle, and the Midwest (Iowa and Chicago). * O'Brien's previous collections have been reviewed by journals, literary magazines and newspapers that address political movements, international news, Occupy protests, as well as new and contemporary poetry. We will solicit reviews from top-tier current issue and poetry-specific publicity venues, including The New York Times, Boston Review, Publishers Weekly, Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry, and The New Yorker. * We will promote O'Brien's work through our facebook, tumblr, and twitter accounts, as well as through pre-publication promotions on our website.

About the Author
Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from The University of California Press. His chapbooks include Hesiod (Song Cave, 2010), and Poem with No Good Lines (Hand Held Editions, 2010). He is the coauthor (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O'Brien (Minus A Press, 2012) and (in collaboration with the poet Jeff Clark) of 2A (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 9781933517728
Author Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Format Paperback
Page Count 128
Imprint Wave Books
Publisher Wave Books
Weight(grams) 170g