Sleeping and Waking - Softcover

O'Brien, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978746724 ISBN 13: 9780978746728

Publisher: Flood Editions, 2007

Synopsis

Poetry. SLEEPING AND WAKING moves between states of consciousness and the phenomenal world, finding reciprocities among sleep, dreams, weather, and urban signs. O'Brien's curiosity gets drawn to the edges of everyday life, rendering each local event with concision and exactitude. His poems offer what Ezra Pound calls "luminous details" in glimpsed gestures or overheard vernacular, full of the flaneur's alert attention.

About this title

About the Author

Michael O'Brien was born in Granville, New York in 1939; studied at Fordham, the University of Paris, and Columbia; worked as a librarian; was one of the Eventorium poets, where his first book was published in 1967; taught at Brooklyn and Hunter; worked for many years editing technical publications; wrote The Summer Poems, Conversations at the West End, Blue Springs, Veil, Hard Rain, The Ruin, The Floor and the Breath, 17 Songs, At Schoodic: Poems and Drawings, Sills, Six Poems, Swift Moons Repair Celestial Losses, and Sleeping and Waking. He lives in New York City.

From the Back Cover

"No other poet now writing is more alert from word to word or registers the world with Michael O'Brien's oblique precision." August Kleinzahler

From the Inside Flap

"Over the years O'Brien has pared his poetry to essentials. He shapes this matter in many forms, and the resulting music is declarative, terse, and elegant. No ornament blurs the reader's intense pleasure." William Corbett

Edition details

• Publisher: Flood Editions
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0978746724
• ISBN 13: 9780978746728
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80