Sleeping and Waking
by Michael O'Brien
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Poetry. SLEEPING AND WAKING moves between states of consciousness and the phenomenal world, finding reciprocities among sleep, dreams, weather, and urban signs. O'Brien's curiosity gets drawn to the edges of everyday life, rendering each local event with concision and exactitude. His poems offer what Ezra Pound calls "luminous details" in glimpsed gestures or overheard vernacular, full of the flaneur's alert attention.Tags
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1.5, but closer to 2 than 1. I don't dislike it that much. I just didn't find myself very moved by it. Except for "What She Does" which is 19 lines I could just swim in blissfully for a while. I was surprised to stumble into delightful love with the whole thing when I hadn't loved, especially, any certain line in the 39 pages leading up to it. I do appreciate the diamond in my rough, that lingers in my mind as I well and truly close the covers and continue to move on through other things.
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