Geoffrey G. O'Brien
@whatwillsuffice
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Berkeley, CA
Joined October 2011
RT @FadyJoudah: A great magazine I’m honoured to be in; I wrote about Moses and redemption and Palestinian interiority.
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RT @HZeavin: my essay, "Struggle Unity Struggle," about being a teenage maoist, the anti-war movement (such as it was) after 9/11, and comr….
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Young recruits make ideal pupils: their minds are curious, their bodies likely tireless (and later, strong, for armed struggle), and their pasts, by definition, brief: no one needs to worry that much...
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RT @Parapraxis_Mag: "This, then, is our work. Joshua Clover reminds us, 'Thoroughfare, public square, pipeline, railway, dockside, airport,….
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The editors
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Rest in power & poetry, Alice Notley, an example brighter than white phosphorus of how to self-differ, ruthlessly and joyously, across a long writing life that went to Paris and into the underworld, into the pines, and through one of the best poems of the 20th century:.
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RT @Parapraxis_Mag: Announcing Issue 06: Resistance, now available for pre-order. Essays by Fady Joudah (@FadyJoudah), Jamieson Webster (@….
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New York School History Lesson.
Last month I delivered a talk on psychoanalysis and poetry at Saint Mark's Church. Today, it appears in the @parisreview. I wrote it at JClo's house, and he makes an appearance:.
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RT @HZeavin: Juliana on Joshua:
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How the militant, poet, political theorist, organizer, and giver of gifts refused to die.
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including all the beautiful testimony on this horrible site. I’m attaching an elegy here I’ve just written for the man, the friend, who loved both Madonna and Marx.
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My last word from him earlier on the night he would die was a text about Steph Curry’s performance in Game 4 against the Rockets: “Vintage.” It is not enough, it never could be, but there is also so much evidence of what he thought and did,.
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and also how those things altered the people and world system about him, around him, as much as one amazing lone person can. I last saw him this past Thursday and my last act of living relation was to squeeze his toe and tell him I’d be back soon.
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everything that was internal to him, from militant thought and fiercely beautiful poems and a commitment to being in the streets (so many forms of saying NO to wrong life and the beautiful YES all those Nos contained).
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I was friends with Joshua Clover for over 30 years, with a large hole in the middle of that time which we eventually worked through into a 2nd long intimacy that was also a redemptive continuation of the first. I will miss everything about him and I mean about in both senses:.
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RT @HZeavin: my second book published today. i can't contact any feeling about it, i am just absolutely gutted. If you pick it up, pick up….
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RT @HZeavin: Today @LAReviewofBooks published the first excerpt from MOTHER MEDIA (@mitpress), from my chapter on the history of infant sle….
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The LARB Quarterly, issue no. 44, “Pressure,” presents an excerpt from Hannah Zeavin’s “Mother Media.”
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RT @HZeavin: My second book, MOTHER MEDIA, is out in just a few weeks from @mitpress. The book is about the 20th century crisis of the fami….
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From the nursery to the prison, from the clinic to the commune, Mother Media tells the story of how we arrived at our contemporary understanding of what a mo...
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Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will, frenzy of the terrified.
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RT @HZeavin: The latest issue of @Parapraxis_Mag is at our new distributor (!) & shipping out now. Some previews are online. No. 05 is gorg….
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RT @PoemsLunch: please join us for a poetry reading by Megan Fernandes next Thursday, Feb 6, 12:10 p.m! . @UCBEngl….
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Lunch Poems, Berkeley’s storied noontime poetry series, welcomes Megan Fernandes.
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RT @HZeavin: The first previews from Issue 05 are up, including our editorial note. The issue is gorgeous, our biggest yet. I say it every….
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