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Product Description: Poetry. IN A MIST is Geoffrey O'Brien's seventh collection of poems. It brings together scenes recovered from dream or experience, transmuted fragments of myth, passages retrieved from lost libraries and recollected conversations, the story lines of imaginary films, snapshots of lake and street corner and darkened construction site, the inventions of sleeplessness, transcriptions of chime tones and birdsong, and the memory of faces...read more

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9781848613607 | Shearsman Books, March 15, 2015, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: “We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast,” writes Geoffrey O’Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows. This collection—gathering the best of a decade’s worth of writing on film by one of our most bracing and imaginative critics—ranges freely over the past, present, and future of the movies, from the primal visual poetry of the silent era to the dizzying permutations of the merging digital age...read more

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9781619021709, titled "Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows: Writing on Film 2002-2012" | Counterpoint, May 28, 2013, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: “We watch what is moving fast from a platform that is also moving fast,” writes Geoffrey O’Brien in the beginning of Stolen Glimpses, Captive Shadows.

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Product Description: One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and popular culture. Topics range from the invention of cinema to contemporary F-X aesthetics, from Shakespeare on film to Seinfeld, and we include essays on 30's screwball comedies, Hong Kong Martial Arts movies, to the roots of spy movies and the televising of Clinton's grand jury testimony...read more

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9781582431901 | Counterpoint, June 1, 2002, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: The cultural critic presents sixteen years' worth of film criticism and writings on popular culture, covering such topics as Seinfeld, 1930s screwball comedies, Hong Kong martial-arts movies, and sexploitation pictures.

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9781619021600 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, June 4, 2013), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: One of our best cultural critics here collects sixteen years' worth of essays on film and popular culture.

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Product Description: The Walworth family was the very symbol of virtue and distinction for decades, rising to prominence as part of the splendor of New York's aristocracy. When Frank Walworth travels to New York to "settle a family difficulty" by shooting his father at point blank range, his family must reveal their inner demons in a spectacular trial to save him from execution...read more

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9780312577148 | Reprint edition (Griffin, August 16, 2011), cover price $22.99 | About this edition: The Walworth family was the very symbol of virtue and distinction for decades, rising to prominence as part of the splendor of New York's aristocracy.

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9781429989626 | Henry Holt & Co, July 20, 2010, cover price $14.99

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9781590174388 | New York Review of Books, July 13, 2011, cover price $12.95

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Product Description: In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynastyOn June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor...read more

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9780805081152, titled "The Fall of the House of Walworth: A Tale of Madness and Murder in Gilded Age America" | 1 edition (Henry Holt & Co, July 20, 2010), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In the tradition of The Devil in the White City comes a spell-binding tale of madness and murder in a nineteenth century American dynastyOn June 3, 1873, a portly, fashionably dressed, middle-aged man calls the Sturtevant House and asks to see the tenant on the second floor.

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Features a three-part anthology of more than five hundred poems, organized into the cycles of nature, the phases of human life, and other enduring themes.

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9780316735018 | Little Brown & Co, April 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Features a three-part anthology of more than five hundred poems, organized into the cycles of nature, the phases of human life, and other enduring themes.

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9780316029025 | Little Brown & Co, September 3, 2007, cover price $11.99

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Product Description: Red Sky Café contains postcards and poem-cards, a fistful of sonnets, a cento and a lipogram, a Greek myth retold by its regretful hero, a dance number from a lost Betty Grable musical. It mixes songs, narrative episodes, previews of coming attractions, and television programs glimpsed through the window of a neighbor's apartment...read more

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9781844710713 | Salt Pub, January 1, 2005, cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Red Sky Café contains postcards and poem-cards, a fistful of sonnets, a cento and a lipogram, a Greek myth retold by its regretful hero, a dance number from a lost Betty Grable musical.

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A incisive compendium of essays by a renowned cultural historian and critic explores how the phenomenon of twentieth-century pop music is experienced and how listeners hear pop music and connect it with their lives, which are lived in the presence of pop music. 25,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

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9781582431925 | Counterpoint, March 1, 2004, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Essays by a cultural historian and critic explores how the phenomenon of twentieth-century pop music is experienced and how listeners hear pop music and connect it with their lives.

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Product Description: This is a prose poem about reading - a playful, epigrammatic nocturne upon the dream-state one falls into when lost in a book, and the uncanny, trancelike pleasure of making silent marks on paper utter sounds inside one's head. A meditation on reading, the book goes both far and deep, resisting easy summary and classification...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781582430560 | Counterpoint, May 1, 2000, cover price $23.00 | About this edition: In narrative format, shares the dreamstates and pleasure experienced when browsing and diving into the world of books, taking delight in words on pages.

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9781582432458 | Counterpoint, March 14, 2003, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: This is a prose poem about reading - a playful, epigrammatic nocturne upon the dream-state one falls into when lost in a book, and the uncanny, trancelike pleasure of making silent marks on paper utter sounds inside one's head.

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Product Description: This title collects poems from the last half-decade, ranging from a monologue from an unmade film noir to a sonic sculpture where sense is driven by sound. The narratives take their form from the myth-making of ordinary life, partly found and partly invented out of which we try to forge a connection between what has vanished and what is yet to come...read more

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9781876857554 | Salt Pub, November 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This title collects poems from the last half-decade, ranging from a monologue from an unmade film noir to a sonic sculpture where sense is driven by sound.

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The sensibility of the sixties--the drug culture, mysticism, rock music, and revolutionary tactics employed in the name of peace and equality--is captured in this insightful blend of autobiography, prose montage, and cultural criticism. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780670818440 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: The sensibility of the sixties--the drug culture, mysticism, rock music, and revolutionary tactics employed in the name of peace and equality--is captured in this insightful blend of autobiography, prose montage, and cultural criticism

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9781582431918 | Reprint edition (Counterpoint, June 1, 2002), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The sensibility of the sixties--the drug culture, mysticism, rock music, and revolutionary tactics employed in the name of peace and equality--is captured in this insightful blend of autobiography, prose montage, and cultural criticism.
9780140103625 | Reprint edition (Penguin USA, May 1, 1989), cover price $7.95 | About this edition: Blends a unique use of language and changing points of view to explore the ideals, events, and attitudes of 1960s America

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Product Description: Does an opera producer do anything besides tell the singers where to stand? Can a single note be played more or less beautifully on the piano? In these essays, all originally published in The New York Review of Books, five of our most accomplished contemporary artists and critics explore the relationship between technique and interpretation in the performing arts...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780940322752 | New York Review of Books, February 1, 2001, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Does an opera producer do anything besides tell the singers where to stand?

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Product Description: In Bardic Deadlines, writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books. O'Brien surveys an array of some of the most striking and innovative poets to emerge in recent decades, including Susan Howe, August Kleinzahler, Clark Coolidge, Nathaniel Mackey, Gustaf Sobin, and Michael O'Brien...read more

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9780472096831 | Univ of Michigan Pr, December 1, 1998, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: In Bardic Deadlines, writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books.

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9780472066834 | Univ of Michigan Pr, February 1, 1999, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In Bardic Deadlines, writer and editor Geoffrey O'Brien collects twenty of his essays on poetry that originally appeared in the Voice Literary Supplement and the New York Review of Books.

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Featuring more than fifty photographs of Manhattan's Times Square in its heyday, a fictional, gritty portrait of the famous intersection at its sleaziest follows a fledgling filmmaker's struggle to produce a B movie. Original. 17,500 first printing.

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9780393318463 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1998, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Featuring more than fifty photographs of Manhattan's Times Square in its heyday, a fictional, gritty portrait of the famous intersection at its sleaziest follows a fledgling filmmaker's struggle to produce a B movie.

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Product Description: Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M. Cain, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, David Goodis … these are a few of the masters of noir responsible for the great lurid paperbacks of the thirties, forties, and fifties. With titles like The Big Sleep, Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye, and Street of the Lost, with racy cover lines like "My gun-butt smashed his skull!" and "Ruthless terror ripped away the mask that hid cold fear," and with some of the most extraordinary cover illustrations ever to grace American literature, these paperbacks held the ingredients of American nightmares...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780306807732 | Exp sub edition (Da Capo Pr, March 21, 1997), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Dashiell Hammett, Mickey Spillane, James M.

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A selection of books in print in the United States covers such subjects as world history, current events, science, literature, popular fiction, the arts, self-help, business, and books for young readers
By Geoffrey O'Brien (editor)

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9780924322013 | 2 edition (Rc Pubns, February 1, 1997), cover price $34.95 | About this edition: A selection of books in print in the United States covers such subjects as world history, current events, science, literature, popular fiction, the arts, self-help, business, and books for young readers

Poetry. "The precision and ordered intelligence of Geoffrey O'Brien's essays are turned inside out in the dream landscapes of his poetry. The result is a kind of spectral tapestry where words and images are stripped to their own inherent valence and deeper codings the better to hunt down resemblances and resolutions. The effects are mysterious, hypnotic, often breathtaking, and, I think, unique in American poetry"-August Kleinzahler. (view table of contents)

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9781883689391 | Talisman House Pub, September 1, 1996, cover price $30.50

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9781883689384, titled "Floating City: Selected Poems 1978-1995" | Talisman House Pub, May 1, 1996, cover price $10.50 | About this edition: Poetry.

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Product Description: ghosts from a narrative imagined in childhood find their home in the Hudson Valley

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9780873760782 | Red Dust, January 1, 1994, cover price $4.00 | About this edition: ghosts from a narrative imagined in childhood find their home in the Hudson Valley

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Examines the experience of watching a motion picture, discusses the social and psychological impact of films, and surveys major themes and genres

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9780393035490 | W W Norton & Co Inc, October 1, 1993, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Examines the experience of watching a motion picture, discusses the social and psychological impact of films, and surveys major themes and genres

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Product Description: many stories piled on top of one another, palimpsests of memories, histories

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9780873760614 | Red Dust, September 1, 1989, cover price $4.00 | About this edition: many stories piled on top of one another, palimpsests of memories, histories

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An essential tool for the discriminating book buyer, lists a selection of the best books in print, accompanied by annotations and illustrations
By Helen Morris (editor), Geoffrey O'Brien (editor) and Stephen Wasserstein (editor)

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9780924322006 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1989, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: An essential tool for the discriminating book buyer, lists a selection of the best books in print, accompanied by annotations and illustrations

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