In a Mist Author:Geoffrey O'Brien Poetry. IN A MIST is Geoffrey O'Brien's seventh collection of poems. It brings together scenes recovered from dream or experience, transmuted fragments of myth, passages retrieved from lost libraries and recollected conversations, the story lines of imaginary films, snapshots of lake and street corner and darkened construction site, the inventio... more »ns of sleeplessness, transcriptions of chime tones and birdsong, and the memory of faces.« less