{"product_id":"9781933517773","title":"People on Sunday","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"O'Brien's [is] a poetry that asks for patient attention, and gives back all the void's abundance.\"— \u003ci\u003eRain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Patriot Act, a sestina with dauntingly common repeating end words, or in flat-out theory, O'Brien shows himself to be capable of portraying the muddled traffic of life in the Internet age.\"— \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review for \u003ci\u003eMetropole\u003c\/i\u003e )\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his most autobiographical collection to date, Geoffrey G. O'Brien explores—via the \"promise of happiness\" in great works of art—the dream of a working freedom not relegated to Sundays. Crossing traditional poetic material with contemporary political struggle, O'Brien captures the complex feelings of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eHere again just a few minutes\u003cbr\u003eTo see what we've done with what they let us have.\u003cbr\u003eLike spring in Washington, D.C.\u003cbr\u003eThe way we're taught to imagine days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs reprieves from other days, cherries snowing\u003cbr\u003eInexpressiveness, the nation's capital\u003cbr\u003eAn experience of how it is to be\u003cbr\u003eCaught up in pink and white again.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eGeoffrey G. O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eMetropole\u003c\/i\u003e (2011), \u003ci\u003eGreen and Gray\u003c\/i\u003e (2007), and \u003ci\u003eThe Guns and Flags Project\u003c\/i\u003e (2002), all from University of California Press. He is the co-author (with John Ashbery and Timothy Donnelly) of \u003ci\u003eThree Poets: Ashbery, Donnelly, O'Brien\u003c\/i\u003e (Minus A Press, 2012). O'Brien teaches at UC Berkeley and also for the Prison University Project at San Quentin State Prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wave Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47064457150704,"sku":"9781933517773","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781933517773_p0.jpg?v=1763640298","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781933517773","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}