Acknowledgments; The Premiere of Reappearance; Second Shift; Absence of the Archbishop; Solubility; Isabel's First House; Thoughts of a Judge; Eloign; Early Description; The Sentry-Box; Parts of a House; Tale with a Cascading Moral; Excelsior; Observations on the Florida Question; Reverent Estimations; Palinode; Two Philosophers; Plants Waving in Different Directions; In the Idle Style; The Truth in Italy; Standing before Paintings; Constantly So Near; An Unusual Optimism; Stanzas from Oliveira's Third Dream; Man Called Aerodynamics; Of a Pressing Nature; A Soldier's Uniform; The Guestbook.
Summary
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 progress
