Civil and civic : poems / Jonathan Bennett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Jonathan, 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (64 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Misfit, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

?“As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language, he’s never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting, contemporary voice, part colourful reporter, part reluctant witness, his lines gain their effect by serving experience in the most necessary way possible, via clear-eyed attention and vivid diction. The result is an immediacy often lacking in other poetry. Civil and Civic’s nimble narratives will crackle in your ear.” – David O’Meara, author of Noble Gas, Penny Black The poems of Jonathan Bennett’s second collection, Civil and Civic, probe for present meanings of civility and civic mindedness, search for boundaries between private and public realms, and question the sprawling and often unintended effects of transparency and obligation. Medicine, the military, science, public relations, social justice, media, business, and the environmental movement are just some of the worlds these poems inhabit. Not without a spirit of play, in Civil and Civic Bennett emerges as a disquieting curator, giving the reader poetry that is relevant, humane, political, investigative, and outward looking. Yet, within which, he supplies voice to private moments, isolated or suppressed incidents, and to the happy accidents that can occur within language when irreconcilable spheres of influence meet and open up new meanings, ideas, hope even.

Contents:

Front Cover

Copyright

Table of Contents

Back Roads

Foxhole Prayers

Woody and Wiley

Ravens, Working Holiday

Travellers

Bungalofts in Bobcaygeon

Emergency

Rest

Civil and Civic

Isadora and the Swallow

Key Messages I: For the Death of an Acquaintance

Border State

Placebo Poem

Who Will Serve Nanaimo Bars at the Funeral?

Somewhere, A Voice of Spring

A Dictator Awaiting Trial Is Translated

How Ridings Swing

Key Messages II: For the Release of a Report

After Painting Wild Apple Trees

A Vice President Spends Time with Her Children

Horseplay

Soffit and Facia

Worms

Clocks and Moons

Puts and Takes

Still Life with Infant

No Notice

His Love of a Cadaver Is Requited

Elegy for Civic Hospital

Back Cover

Summer, 11 A.M.

Key Messages III: For the Birth of Life

Big Bang

Last Notes

Acknowledgements

About the Author.

ISBN:

9781554909407

1554909406

OCLC:

721194865