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The Guns and Flags Project
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95Obsessed with work and dream, shot through with weather and color, Geoffrey G. O'Brien's spirited debut pursues the possibility of the lyric itself - whether the voice raised "with melodies/and thinking" can be rescued from the ongoing disaster of progress. more...
The Fall of the House of Walworth
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 15.99In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynasty On June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor. The bellman goes up and presents the visitor's card to the guest in... more...
Metropole
University of California Press 2011; US$ 24.95Geoffrey 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... more...
Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows
Counterpoint 2013; US$ 25.00?We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast,? writes Geoffrey O?Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows . This collection?gathering the best of a decade?s worth of writing on film by one of our most bracing and imaginative critics?ranges freely over the past, present, and future of the movies, from the... more...
Castaways of the Image Planet
Counterpoint 2013; US$ 16.95One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and popular culture. Topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics, from Shakespeare on film to Seinfeld, and we include essays on 30's screwball comedies, Hong Kong Martial Arts movies, to the roots of spy movies and the televising of... more...
Bartlett's Poems for Occasions
Little, Brown and Company 2007; US$ 11.99Bartlett's Poems for Occasions, an entertaining, thought-provoking companion to the bestselling Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, is the book to turn to for any circumstance-from birth to death and everything in between. Under the direction of esteemed poet and writer Geoffrey O'Brien, Bartlett's Poems for Occasions will inspire you to turn to poetry... more...
Sleepless Nights
New York Review Books 2011; US$ 14.00In Sleepless Nights a woman looks back on her life?the parade of people, the shifting background of place?and assembles a scrapbook of memories, reflections, portraits, letters, wishes, and dreams. An inspired fusion of fact and invention, this beautifully realized, hard-bitten, lyrical book is not only Elizabeth Hardwick's finest fiction but one... more...
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