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The news, and other poems / David Citino.
Van Pelt Library PS3553.I86 N49 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Citino, David, 1947-2005.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- x, 82 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- 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 from sources impeachable and unimpeachable -- supermarket tabloids and journals of science, folklore and the laboratory, chronicles of ancient history and news wires, even those sometimes terrible things we learn from our doctors or those we love.
- Contents:
- Diggers unearth Tut's nurse. Neanderthal, with help from cave and bear, invents the flute
- Diggers unearth Tut's nurse
- Unknown soldier buried at Gettysburg
- Ode to Billie Dove
- Winnie Ruth Judd, trunk murderess
- The politics of biogeography; or, Gerry Adams visits No. 10 Downing Street
- Four drown in pool
- Newborn found alive in shallow grave
- Models auction their eggs on the web
- 88-year-old man visits the candy shop
- Gunman destroys the world again
- 25 Hurt in tent collapse
- Pompeii in danger. "I see a dark stranger in your future"
- Pompeii in danger
- The road beneath the road
- The farm beneath the farm
- Parish priest struck by Easter bell
- Venice declares war on pigeons
- Funding the dead
- Writing to the holy child of Aracoeli
- The land of liars
- Il giorno to close
- Doctors in Italy transplant heart of baby born without a brain
- Nonna, who, the last 50 years, burned a candle every day
- Virgin cries tears of olive oil
- The death of Domenico Modugno
- The penmanship of the dead. Thoreau's site fouled by nature
- Making time
- The death of a friend who still believes
- The desertion of the frogs
- Tools
- Payday
- Naming a wildflower, a mountain, a night
- Nomen est omen: a name is destiny
- Hound dog
- Spiders, worms, the history of MS
- Two lessons from the sky
- Reading the MRI report, the retired pastor considers dementia
- Tabloid poem
- The thawing of the Iceman
- A brief history of fathers
- Calling mother
- Song of the bone
- The penmanship of the dead
- Sister Mary Appassionata on the grand unified theory
- Cell phone.
- ISBN:
- 0268036578
- 0268036586
- OCLC:
- 50279970
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