Berkeley English Faculty

Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Professor

Wheeler Hall, room 436
By appt. (Zoom). On sabbatical 2022-23.
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)