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Each poem in Sean O'Brien's superb new collection opens on a wholly different room, vista, or landscape, each drawn with the poet's increasingly refined sense of tone, history, and rhetorical assurance. "The Beautiful Librarians" is a stock-taking of sorts, and a celebration of those unsung but central figures in our culture, often overlooked by both capital and official account. Here we find infantrymen, wrestlers, old lushes in the hotel bar but none more heroic than the librarians of the title, those silent and silencing guardians of literature and knowledge who, the poet reminds us, also...

A brilliant new collection from the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prize winning poet Showing O'Brien at the height of his powers, with his intellect and imagination as gratifyingly restless as ever, this collection is haunted by the missing, the missed, the vanished, the uncounted, and the uncountable lost--lost sleep, connections, muses, books, and the ghosts and gardens of childhood. Ultimately, the poet is led to contemplate the most troubling absences: O'Brien's elegies for his parents and friends form the heart of this book, and are the source of its pervasive note of...