Metropole

Name: Metropole
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ISBN: 9780520268876

ISBN-10: 0520268873

ISBN-13: 9780520268876

Edition: 2011

Authors: Geoffrey G. O'Brien

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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 "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…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/2/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 112
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.40" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English



Acknowledgments


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 ï¿½ Deux


Ambien


Old War Injury


Ecstatic Norm


Having Since Moved On


Restricted Palette


The Sï¿½tterlin Method


Dizzy Procession


Street Cry


To Be Read in Either Direction


Metropole