Where Did Poetry Come From

Overview

Chapter One "On Becoming a Poet" Series

Author Biography

Geoffrey O’Brien, born in New York City in 1948, has published ten collections of poetry, among them Floating City (1995), Red Sky Café (2005), Early Autumn (2010), The Blue Hill (2018), Who Goes There (2020), and most recently Went Like It Came (2023). He is also the author of prose works including Hardboiled America (1981), Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties (1988), The Phantom Empire (1993), The Browser’s Ecstasy (2000), Sonata for Jukebox (2004), Where Did Poetry Come From: Some Early Encounters (2020), and Arabian Nights of 1934 (2023). His writings on film, music, theater, and poetry have appeared frequently in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He worked as editor at the Library of America for 25 years, retiring as editor in chief in 2017. He lives in New York City.