Paperwork / David Citino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Citino, David, 1947-2005, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Poetry.

Children.

Cleveland (Ohio)--Poetry.

Cleveland (Ohio).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (185 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Kent, Ohio : The Kent State University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

David J. Citino's Paperwork is a collection of previously published essays, pieces of memoir, and poetry set within the borders of Ohio. A native of Cleveland, Citino has lived in Ohio all his life. Citino's prose casts light on his poetry, and his poetry helps the reader understand his prose. The whole becomes a meditation on thirty years of serious writing and reading by someone very much the product of his environment. Citino's work attempts to show the impact and relevance that poetry and prose can have on an individual and makes a case for poetry from his own perspective.

Contents:

""Cover""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Part One: The Many Houses of Memory""; ""The Poet in the Kitchen""; ""NATO Air Base Proposed for Southern Italy""; ""Writing to the Holy Child of Aracoeli, Miracle-Maker""; ""The Beatification of Padre Pio""; ""The Land of the Liars""; ""Where in the World Am I?""; ""Of Paperboys and Girls and Poetry""; ""The Many Houses of Memory""; """"I Don't Care If I Never Get Back""""; ""Wedding Songs""; ""Orange Beetle""; ""Hound Dog""; ""Part Two: Homage to the Birds""; ""The Poet and the City""; ""My State of the State Address""

""A Personal History of Rivers""""Trees""; ""The Birds!""; ""The Hawk and the Squirrel""; ""Homage to the Birds""; ""Two Lessons from the Sky""; ""Part Three: Poetry Smells""; ""The Way We Do the Things We Do""; ""Foreword to The Book of Appassionata""; ""The Au Pair Boy: In Praise of Apprentices""; ""Working for a Living""; ""Voice and Influence: Skip James, Larry, Curly, Moe, and T. S. Eliot""; ""Certain Notes of Instruction: From George Gascoigne to Wayne Gretsky""; ""Books""; ""Part Four: Paperwork""; ""The Importance of Poetry: The Invisible, Unacknowledged, Nothing at All""

""The Market Value of Poetry""""National Poetry Month""; """"This Is Not Landscape"": Wallace Stevens, Having Removed His Chapeau and Saluted the Ocean, Steps off the Cliffs of Moher""; ""The New Dylan Thomas, and the Old""; """"I Shall Not Want"": The Twenty-third Psalm Comes to Cleveland, Ohio""; ""Paperwork""

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ISBN:

1-61277-383-4

OCLC:

868286984