[New-Poetry] More on Michael O'Brien

[Anny Ballardini]

He seems very interesting to me.
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  From: David Graham 
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  I see from Amazon that MO's book is not in print.  Amazon will sell you a used copy for US$132.76, though.  


  Something tells me that the book will soon be reprinted. . . .


  Mini-review from the Boston *Phoenix* by William Corbett:


  MICHAEL O’BRIEN’s SLEEPING AND WAKING (Flood Editions, 80 pages, $12.95, paper) is the most alert book of poems I have read in some time, both alert-eyed and alert to street speech and the weights and measures of words. His turf is Manhattan’s West 20s, but in whatever locale he finds himself, like Thoreau in Concord, he travels a good deal. His poems, often set in short sequences, are as spare and subtle as those of any American poet writing today. At 68 years old, O’Brien already has many self-published books, and has translated poems from a number of languages. Now, the splendid Floor Editions has given him the well-made book he deserves. His poetry is first-rate.







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