The Beautiful Librarians

by Sean O'Brien

Book Overview

Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista, or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history, and rhetorical assurance. The Beautiful Librarians is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central figures in our culture, often overlooked by both capital and official account. Here we find infantrymen, wrestlers, old lushes in the hotel bar--but...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1447287517
• ISBN13: 9781447287513
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 7.7"