Berkeley English Faculty

Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Professor

Wheeler Hall, room 436
T/TH 2:00-3:30pm
gobrien@berkeley.edu

Specialties

Books

Experience in Groups

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 resis....(read more)

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The Guns and Flags Project

Obsessed with work and dream, shot through with weather and color, Geoffrey G. O'Brien's spirited debut pursues the possibility of the lyric itself--whether the voice raised "with melodies/and thinking" can be rescued from the ongoing disaster of pr....(read more)

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Poetry

People on Sunday

'Brien's [is] a poetry that asks for patient attention, and gives back all the void's abundance."—Rain Taxi "Whether in a poem composed using words and phrases from the Patriot Act, a sestina with dauntingly common repeating end words, or in flat-ou....(read more)

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Poetry

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Recent English Courses Taught

spring, 2019
131/1	American Poetry	American Literature
165/2	Special Topics: 21st-Century U. S. Poetry	American Literature Poetry Special Topics

fall, 2018
143B/2	Verse	Creative Writing Workshops

spring, 2018
131/1	American Poetry	American Literature Poetry

summer, 2018
166/1	Special Topics: Speculative Fictions, Possible Futures	Novel Special Topics

fall, 2017
143B/3	Verse	Poetry Creative Writing Workshops
180L/1	Lyric Verse	Middle English Renaissance and Early Modern Shakespeare British 18th-Century British 19th-Century British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature African American Literature Poetry Literary Theory

spring, 2017
143B/2	Verse	Creative Writing Workshops
180L/1	Lyric Verse	Renaissance and Early Modern British 18th-Century British 19th-Century British 20th- and 21st-Century American Literature Poetry Literary Theory