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.

About the Author

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 Review. Citino is professor of English and creative writing and Poet Laureate at Ohio State University.

Reviews

"At times keenly empathetic ('Ode to Billy Dove'), and often irreverent ('Funding the Dead'), Citino's intense observations and wit yield irresistible poems." -ForeWord

"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

"Citino presents a fun and insightful take on whatever curious moments inspire him from the world at large. He does this marveloulsy, walking a tight line between fact and fancy. It stands out among the recent poetry books as something new and interesting, and as proof that poetry can come from anywhere." -The Adirondack Review

Book Information
ISBN 9780268036577
Author David Citino
Format Hardback
Page Count 94
Imprint University of Notre Dame Press
Publisher University of Notre Dame Press