LEADER 03794nam 2200577 a 450 001 9910955553403321 005 20240515203819.0 010 $a9781554909407 010 $a1554909406 035 $a(CKB)2550000001134703 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH19838123 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000521507 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11336220 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000521507 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10522421 035 $a(PQKB)10471071 035 $a(CEL)439164 035 $a(CaBNVSL)slc00227274 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3028633 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10467685 035 $a(OCoLC)721194865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3028633 035 $a(Perlego)1294412 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001134703 100 $a20110518d2011 uy p 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aCivil and civic $epoems /$fJonathan Bennett 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aToronto $cMisfit$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (64 p.) 311 08$a9781770410176 311 08$a1770410171 311 08$a9781306031608 311 08$a1306031605 327 $aFront 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. 330 $a?“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. 606 $aAmerican poetry 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $aC811/.6 700 $aBennett$b Jonathan$f1970-$01810904 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910955553403321 996 $aCivil and civic$94362451 997 $aUNINA