PaperworkKent State University Press, 2003 - 176 pages 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
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NATO Air Base Proposed for Southern Italy | 8 |
Writing to the Holy Child of Aracoeli MiracleMaker | 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 |
Homage to the Birds | 82 |
Two Lessons from the Sky | 84 |
The Way We Do the Things We Do | 87 |
Foreword to The Book of Appassionato | 92 |
In Praise of Apprentices | 98 |
Working for a Living | 103 |
Skip James Larry Curly Moe and T S Eliot | 107 |
From George Gascoigne to Wayne Gretsky | 113 |
I Dont Care If I Never Get Back | 38 |
Wedding Songs | 43 |
Orange Beetle | 47 |
Hound Dog | 49 |
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 |
Books | 122 |
The Invisible Unacknowledged Nothing at All | 129 |
The Market Value of Poetry | 133 |
National Poetry Month | 138 |
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 |
The Twentythird Psalm Comes to Cleveland Ohio | 154 |
Paperwork | 165 |
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