[New-Poetry] Blurbs Gone Bad: Re: New Titles from University of California Press

JforJames at aol.com JforJames at aol.com
Wed Feb 7 19:19:38 EST 2007


 
With praise like this, who need Wm Logan...
Finnegan
 
In a message dated 2/7/2007 2:39:28 PM Eastern Standard Time,  
enews at ucpress.edu writes:

Green and Gray
Geoffrey G.  O'Brien

"O'Brien writes meditative poetry at the highest  level.  The thinking here 
is not 'about' anything; rather thinking  becomes a modality of being within 
which the potential of lyric situations  unfolds and takes on delightful 
intensities. These are not poems to interpret  but to explore for how the mind 
attentive to the full resources of lyric  traditions stretches the senses and 
therefore finds itself more truly and more  strange."—Charles Altieri

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 . . .  

For more information, click here: _Green and  Gray_ 
(http://www.informz.net/z/cjUucD9taT0zOTE3MjImcD0xJnU9MTA2MTUzMDI3JmxpPTEyMDUyODM/index.html) 

Subjects: Literature; American Literature;  Poetry
Market: General Interest
978-0-520-25018-5, cloth  $50.00
978-0-520-25019-2, paper $19.95




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