Geoffrey O'Brien

Broschiertes Buch

Went Like It Came

Beschreibung

Each of these poems is some sort of story about stories. A crowded city undergoes a spell of enforced confinement. In a war of rumors and conspiracy theories, identities are stolen and shapeshifting outsiders infiltrate urban parks. New fiefdoms consolidate under the sign of pervasive unease. A landscape of dry rivers and toxic weeds reveals itself. Within the zone of isolation, all the stories play out again in the mind, through memory or dream or unexpected waking flash-spectral trespasses, plays staged in empty theaters, messages concealed in drowned books, lives that might have been lived but weren't, hermetic histories, lost paradises continuing to unreel in a subterranean screening room. The stories hang at last on a thread of melody, resolving themselves into a connecting filament that persists even at the core of silence. SAMPLE POEM: The Bed There are moments when the sun is nothing orange glow staining a blank wall and the dying see doorways not visible to others but cannot enter them or even stir from the bed where they beat their hands against the barrier

Autor

GEOFFREY O'BRIEN, born in New York City in 1948, has published nine collections of poetry, among them Floating City (1995), Red Sky Café (2005), Early Autumn (2010), The Blue Hill (2018), and most recently Who Goes There (2020). He is also the author of prose works including Hardboiled America (1981), Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties (1988), The Phantom Empire (1993), The Browser's Ecstasy (2000), Sonata for Jukebox (2004), Where Did Poetry Come From (2020), and Arabian Nights of 1934 (2023). His writings on film, music, theater, and poetry have appeared frequently in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He worked as editor at Library of America for 25 years, retiring as editor in chief in 2017. He lives in Brooklyn.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dos Madres Press
• Seitenzahl: 80
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 187g
• ISBN-13: 9781953252876
• ISBN-10: 1953252877
• Artikelnr.: 68764833