Geoffrey O'Brien Selected Works

In The Blue Hill, winner of the 2017 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, sometimes time is the subject, and sometimes materiality, as these poems point us toward the strangeness at the heart of being. We are swept away, almost in spite of ourselves, by the hypnotic precision of language. It veers through twists and turns of utterly simple phrases into its own incandescent music.

In a Mist is Geoffrey O'Brien's seventh collection of poems. It brings together scenes recovered from dream or experience, transmuted fragments of myth, passages retrieved from lost libraries and recollected conversations, the story lines of imaginary films, snapshots of lake and street corner and darkened construction site, the inventions of sleeplessness, transcriptions of chime tones and birdsong, and the memory of faces.