Experience in Groups
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Wave Books
Published:19th Apr '18
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Experience in Groups sings and thinks the forms of belonging that organize our lives, offering poems that move with honesty and formal intelligence between the individual and the collective. In a time of ascendant fascism and creative political resistance, O'Brien's work demands that an elegy, love poem, and a sonnet sequence become occasions where personal tragedies and joys find a pattern and a place within national and global struggle.
"O'Brien touches on the most pressing questions and dilemmas of being human in this time and place with welcome playfulness."
—Publishers Weekly, starred review
"A lot of the poems deal with togetherness. They were us . . . To deal with togetherness, though, you have to deal with isolation, which the collection does. Experience in Groups deals with isolation and time, the restlessness knowing that we could spoil everything in an instant."
—Cody Lee, Newpages
ISBN: 9781940696652
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
144 pages