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 "vagu
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
"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 da
"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 da
"O'Brien writes meditative poetry at the highest level. The thinking here is not 'about' anything; rather thinking becomes a modality of being within which the potential of lyric situations unfolds an
"O'Brien writes meditative poetry at the highest level. The thinking here is not 'about' anything; rather thinking becomes a modality of being within which the potential of lyric situations unfolds a
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
