The final book by a master of compression
"Very few significant American poets called as little attention to themselves in their lifetimes as Michael O'Brien, who died last November at the age of 77. Much as with Lorine Niedecker--whose 'silences', he wrote, 'derive from an intellectual conviction that art, like science, demands total concentration on the object of attention'--his poetry was all about paying attention, in his case...
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