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Poems that reimagine poetry’s ancient dream of collective life from within the nightmare and necessities of our present.
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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.
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Pages: 144
Publisher: Wave Books
Imprint: Wave Books
Publication Date: 03 April 2018
ISBN: 9781940696669
Format: Paperback
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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 Experience in Groups (Wave Books, forthcoming 2018) and People on Sunday (Wave Books, 2013), as well as 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 included 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.

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