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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.
Price: $35.00
Pages: 144
Publisher: Wave Books
Imprint: Wave Books
Publication Date:
03 April 2018
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781940696652
Format: Hardcover
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"O'Brien touches on the most pressing questions and dilemmas of being human in this time and place with welcome playfulness."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
Geoffrey G. O'Brien is the author of People on Sunday (Wave Books, 2013). He is also the author of Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002), all from The University of California Press. 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.
Contents
Glass
Poem for Now and Later
Experience in Groups
After England
Chroma
The Middle Distance
Translations from the Occitan
Fidelio
Argus
Sonnets So Far
Valentine Avenue
Nothing, Everything
Elegy
May
Another Poem
Brighton Beach
Experience in Groups
1956–
For Those Still About To
A Downward Motion
We Are Home
Sweet Timothy
My Complaint
Another Elegy
Quick Trip
Experience in Groups