{"product_id":"a-pillow-book-notes-from-a-reading-life-paperback","title":"A Pillow-Book: Notes from a Reading Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMichael O'Brien\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn from the notebooks he kept over the course of forty years, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow-Book\u003c\/em\u003e provides a welcome opportunity to listen in on the conversation poet Michael O'Brien maintained with the world in all its ravishing and rebarbative complexity. That world includes the writers he most valued, the art he practiced so devotedly, the painters and filmmakers that stirred him, the nation that sometimes confounded him, and the city he moved through with such unstinting regard.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConsisting primarily of brief passages\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003egleaned\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003efrom his reading, further enriched by his own observations and commentary, \u003cem\u003eA Pillow-Book \u003c\/em\u003ecaptures\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eall the intelligence, subtlety, and wit so manifest in O'Brien's poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael O'Brien's \u003cem\u003eA Pillow-Book\u003c\/em\u003e is a kind of blueprint or x-ray of the sensibility of one of recent poetry's neglected masters. Unpredictable, quirky, chock-a-block with coruscating insights that are completely individual and revelatory. A treasure. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --August Kleinzahler\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael O'Brien was a writer of meditative wit, generous spirit, and a powerful receptiveness to the most fleeting juxtapositions and suggestions. His poetry--spare, rigorous, preternaturally alert, and still profoundly underestimated--found large perspectives in the most minute phenomena, music in the accidental encounters of overheard conversations and other floating signifiers, biographies and social histories in intercepted gestures and stances. \u003cem\u003eA Pillow-Book\u003c\/em\u003e extracts another kind of music from his reading over many years, and from the dazzling commentary it drew from him. It is a privilege to share, in this oblique fashion, Michael's astute and endlessly curious intellectual companionship. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e --Geoffrey O'Brien\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 196\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 15, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52701685449011,"sku":"9781886044005","price":19.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/WnRrNUNTSk4rT2RyUUlmZllHVGYvQT09.webp?v=1763272687","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-pillow-book-notes-from-a-reading-life-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}