Geoffrey G. O'Brien teaches in the English Department at the University of California, Berkeley and at San Quentin State Prison. He is the author of Green and Gray and The Guns and Flags Project, both available from University of California Press.

"The New California Poetry series has served poetry as Silicon Valley serves the software industry, offering consistent innovation, and O'Brien's Metropole is one of the best of their books." -- Ed Skoog Los Angeles Review Of Books "Ambitious and highly self-conscious poems... If O'Brien's poems are becoming increasingly resistant to, if not combative with, their readers, their rewards are also growing richer for readers willing to engage in the poems' arguments." Publishers Weekly

• Acknowledgments Vague Cadence Bohemian Grove Poem Beginning to End Left Behind Poem with No Good Lines Failed Catalog Forms of Battle Three Years The Other Arts White of the Eyes Folie a Deux Ambien Old War Injury Ecstatic Norm Having Since Moved On Restricted Palette The Sutterlin Method Dizzy Procession Street Cry To Be Read in Either Direction Metropole