NEW FROM SALT
GEOFFREY O’BRIEN
Red Sky Café
Salt Modern Poets
ISBN 1-84471-071-8
GBP 8.99 USD 14.99
Red Sky Café contains postcards and poem-cards, a fistful of sonnets, a
cento and a lipogram, a Greek myth retold by its regretful hero, a dance
number from a lost Betty Grable musical. It mixes songs, narrative
episodes, previews of coming attractions, and television programs glimpsed
through the window of a neighbor’s apartment.
“O’Brien is one of the smartest, deepest, most rewarding poets we have.
It’s his sentences, the amazing (or maybe amazed) lucidity and continuity
of the man, being able to draw so much learning and frivolity to the
heart’s aid.” --ROBERT KELLY
“As befitting a polymath seemingly able to write anything, Geoffrey O’Brien
moves from film-genre poem to Oulipian tour-de-force to skewed
Shakespearian sonnet. Humor threads the selvages of Red Sky Café, but the
cloth itself is a culture’s black bunting.” --SUSAN WHEELER
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