Avenue Author:Michael O'Brien Poetry. "Moving with penetrating attention through avenues of cityscape and dreamscape, Michael O'Brien's poem is a cartography of experience, inner and outer?splendors and vanishing points, snapshots, aphorisms, brief lives, the discarded ideograms of history, the eerily suspended clarities retrieved by memory?ordered by the syntactic music of ... more »a rare intelligence."?Geoffrey O'Brien« less