Green and Gray: Volume 20

by Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Book Overview

Geoffrey G. O'Brien's second collection documents the "remorse of the senses" that attends each moment of experience, the pain and pleasure of not exiting a world in which injustice and distraction secure every sensual event. Attempting to reestablish experience as something other than complicity, these poems insist on "desiring that which is as if it were not," making poetry out of neighborhood flyers, the Patriot Act, and the poverty of presidential...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520250192
• ISBN13: 9780520250192
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 102 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.6" x 8.9"