Green and Gray

Geoffrey G. OBriens second collection documents the remorse of the sensesthat attends each moment of experience the pain and pleasure of not exiting aworld in w... » 

Geoffrey G. OBriens second collection documents the remorse of the sensesthat attends each moment of experience the pain and pleasure of not exiting aworld in which injustice and distraction secure every sensual event. Attemptingto reestablish experience as something other than complicity these poemsinsist on desiring that which is as if it were not making poetry out ofneighborhood flyers the Patriot Act and the poverty of presidential speech.Given this mandate to stay within limited resources Green and Gray makes avirtue of refusing to abandon them often relying on an emphatic recirculationof words and phrases to generate its own system complexities. These are poemswhose materials remember their former use the gray of the city and the greenit used to be. «