Sleeping and Waking

Michael O'Brien

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Finalist:National Book Critics Circle Award -Poetry (2007)

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.