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The News and Other Poems
David Citino
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Description for The News and Other Poems
Hardcover. In this collection of poems, David Citino confronts and attempts to make sense of the news. He explores the good and bad ways the world has of careering into life and sending it off course and tries to understand how we come to know what we know, driven as we are by haughty assumptions. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
In The News and Other Poems, David Citino confronts and attempts to make sense of the news. He explores the good and bad ways the world has of careening into a life and sending it off course. Citino tries to understand how we come to know what we know, driven as we are by haughty assumptions about the world we’re making and the control we think we exert over our own lives and loves.
While still holding romantic notions of ivory towers and ivy-covered garrets, Citino welcomes the latest information—no matter how bad the news. He struggles to understand stories ... Read more
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Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
94
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268036577
SKU
V9780268036577
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About David Citino
David Citino is the author of twelve volumes of poetry, including the National Book Critics Circle Notable Book, Broken Symmetry. He is the contributing editor of The Eye of the Poet: Six Views of the Art and Craft of Poetry. His poems have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies, including The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, The Southern Review, and Threepenny ... Read more
Reviews for The News and Other Poems
"This is a surprising book, given as it is to its tonally bright, aghast/funny treatment of 'the news,' wittily daring to close that oft-quoted schism between news and poetry in its short-sentenced, flabbergasted, tight-stanza'd mode of attack-beyond the spirit of play at work, it also has the capacity to be heartbreaking."—Poetry International “At times keenly empathetic (‘Ode to Billy Dove’), ... Read more