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Item Details
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A VIEW OF BUILDINGS AND WATER
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| By: |
Geoffrey O'Brien |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£9.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1876857552 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781876857554 |
| Publisher: |
SALT PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
15 November, 2002 |
| Pages: |
108 |
| Description: |
Ranging from a monologue from an unmade film noir to a sonic sculpture where sense is driven by sound, these narratives take their form from the myth-making of ordinary life, partly found and partly invented out of which we try to forge a connection between what has vanished and what is yet to come. |
| Synopsis: |
In A View of Buildings and Water Geoffrey O'Brien collects poetry from the last half-decade, among them poems that first appeared in such magazines as Talisman, The Germ, The Literary Review, and New American Writing, and including a number of long sequences that have not appeared anywhere in their complete form. These poems extend a concern with mapping the geographies of dream, fantasy, and intuited history, and with finding a music that might realize those spaces in a flexible, responsive measure. In form the poems range from a monologue from an unmade film noir to a sonic sculpture where sense is made to follow where sounds lead. In "Heads in Limbo" a varied cast of characters is epitomized in a series of epitaph-like three-line poems. Central to the book is a cycle of five poems exploring the stages of grief against a shifting background of terrains both real and phantasmagoric. The book's narratives-slippery, splintered, referring back to lost earlier chronicles-take their form from the mythmaking of ordinary life, the stories partly found and partly invented out of which we try to forge a connection to what has vanished and what has not yet arrived. |
| US Grade: |
From Eighth Grade to College Senior |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
| Publication: |
Australia |
| Imprint: |
Salt Publishing |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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