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Civil and Civic
Contributor(s): Bennett, Jonathan (Author)
ISBN: 1770410171     ISBN-13: 9781770410176
Publisher: ECW Press
OUR PRICE:   $17.06  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: April 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | Canadian
- Literary Criticism | Poetry
Dewey: 809.897
Physical Information: 0.3" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.26 lbs) 64 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Canadian
 
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?"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.