Paperwork / David Citino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Citino, David, 1947-2005.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cleveland (Ohio)--Poetry.

Cleveland (Ohio).

Children--Poetry.

Children.

American essays.

Citino, David, 1947-2005.

Citino, David.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 176 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Kent : Kent State University Press, [2003]

Summary:

A collection of previously published essays, pieces of memoir, and poetry set within the borders of Ohio.

Contents:

1. The Many Houses of Memory

The Poet in the Kitchen 3

NATO Air Base Proposed for Southern Italy 8

Writing to the Holy Child of Aracoeli, Miracle-Maker 19

The Beatification of Padre Pio 20

The Land of the Liars 21

Where in the World Am I? 22

Of Paperboys and Girls and Poetry 28

The Many Houses of Memory 34

"I Don't Care If I Never Get Back" 38

Wedding Songs 43

Orange Beetle 47

Hound Dog 49

2. Homage to the Birds

The Poet and the City 53

My State of the State Address 58

A Personal History of Rivers 65

Trees 69

The Birds! 73

The Hawk and the Squirrel 77

Homage to the Birds 82

Two Lessons from the Sky 84

3. Poetry Smells

The Way We Do the Things We Do 87

Foreword to The Book of Appassionata 92

The Au Pair Boy: In Praise of Apprentices 98

Working for a Living 103

Voice and Influence: Skip James, Larry, Curly, Moe, and T. S. Eliot 107

Certain Notes of Instruction: From George Gascoigne to Wayne Gretsky 113

4. Paperwork

The Importance of Poetry: The Invisible, Unacknowledged, Nothing at All 129

The Market Value of Poetry 133

National Poetry Month 138

"This Is Not Landscape": Wallace Stevens, Having Removed His Chapeau and Saluted the Ocean, Steps off the Cliffs of Moher 141

The New Dylan Thomas, and the Old 148

"I Shall Not Want": The Twenty-third Psalm Comes to Cleveland, Ohio 154

Paperwork 165.

ISBN:

0873387848

OCLC:

53140270