CAHI is delighted to present a Meet the Author reading by visiting poet Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Professor of Poetry at UC Berkeley. Join us for the reading, followed by a discussion and reception.
Geoffrey G. O’Brien is the author of several poetry collections, including Experience in Groups (2018) and People on Sunday, which The New Yorker called one of the best poetry books of 2013. His other books include Metropole (2011), Green and Gray (2007), and The Guns and Flags Project (2002). His work is part of Three Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O’Brien (2012), with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly, and he is co-author of 2A (2006), in collaboration with poet Jeff Clark.
Of People on Sunday, Ben Lerner wrote: “These are poems that bring to bear the full resources of English prosody on our insane political present while also maintaining a position of wonder before the material world. Sometimes the effect is elegiac, making us feel the distance between the dream of the poem and our society of the spectacle. But at other times the effect is electric, as these poems allow us to experience poetic meter as a live alternative to the empty measure of price.”
This event is presented with support from the Ruth N. Halls Humanities Fund and the College of Arts + Sciences.
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