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Known primarily for his critical studies like Dreamtime (Viking, 1988) and Phantom Empire (LJ 9/1/93), O'Brien offers here his first major collection of poetry. The "city" O'Brien describes is a mental edifice, a potent place where myth and poetry spontaneously appear: "In the empty sky/ they see the shape of stanzas." This preoccupation with the self-generating quality of language is the major theme of the book, expressed in graphic images and "mental telegrams": the "mortar mix/ of sung words" is always repairing the gaps in reality; even the "bushes crack with language." O'Brien delights in alliteration, "the fur, the fire/ the far shore," and in lists: "dogs, egg-forms, goat hoofs, ink-jars." With its echoes of Stevens and Ashbery, this collection will convince its readers that "there is no substitute for poetry." Recommended for all large collections.?Daniel L. Guillory, Millikin Univ., Findlay, Ill.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"astounding, all-embracing erudition" John Ashbery
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