GEOFFREY O'BRIEN, born in New York City in 1948, has published nine collections of poetry, among them Floating City (1995), Red Sky Café (2005), Early Autumn (2010), The Blue Hill (2018), and most recently Who Goes There (2020). He is also the author of prose works including Hardboiled America (1981), Dream Time: Chapters from the Sixties (1988), The Phantom Empire (1993), The Browser's Ecstasy (2000), Sonata for Jukebox (2004), Where Did Poetry Come From (2020), and Arabian Nights of 1934 (2023). His writings on film, music, theater, and poetry have appeared frequently in The New York Review of Books and other periodicals. He worked as editor at Library of America for 25 years, retiring as editor in chief in 2017. He lives in Brooklyn.