We Don't Know We Don't Know: Poems - Softcover

Lantz, Nick

 
9781555975524: We Don't Know We Don't Know: Poems
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1555975526 ISBN 13: 9781555975524
Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL, 2010

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Winner of the 2008 Katharine Bakeless Nason Prize for Poetry, Nick Lantz's poems introduce a startling new voice.

Taking its title from a dodging statement from former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, We Don't Know We Don't Know assesses what it means to claim new knowledge within a culture that professes to know everything already. The result is a poetry that upends the deeply and dangerously assumed concepts of such a culture-that new knowledge is always better knowledge, that history is a steady progress, that humans are in control of the natural order. Nick Lantz's poems hurtle through time from ancient theories of physics to the CIA training manual for the practice of torture, from the history of the question mark to the would-be masterpieces left incomplete by the deaths of Leonardo da Vinci, Nikolai Gogol, Bruce Lee, and Jimi Hendrix. Selected by Linda Gregerson for the esteemed Bakeless Prize for Poetry, We Don't Know We Don't

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nick Lantz is the author of a second collection, The Lightning That Strikes the Neighbors' House, which won the Felix Pollak Prize in Poetry. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin.

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Verlag
Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1555975526
ISBN 13 
9781555975524
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
102
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