Metropole: Volume 33

by Geoffrey G. O'Brien

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520268873
• ISBN13: 9780520268876
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 7.8"