"The third section is one poem, WAR BIRD: A JOURNAL, Poets' Anti-War Rally, 12 Feb. 2003
“War Bird,” and it is the book’s title poem, so we naturally read
wanting to know its purpose. The poem is an unalloyed strike at the past failed presidency. Gewanter
sets up the scene and keeps us circling back to a history worsening, the desolation caused by a leader
who will not appear, the delivery of 3000 antiwar poems to the White House gate. Inorder that the
story does not become a dinning of words/event/words, the poet rearranges the poem’s perspective.
Antipodal thoughts careen together, synchronized ultimately, to make a long poem into a safe harbor. "
From Montserrat REive by Grace Cavalieri
| LoC Classification |
PS3557.E897 .W37 2009 |
| LoC Control Number |
2008049199 |
| Dewey |
811.54 |
| Nationality |
American |
| Cover Price |
$18.00 |
| No. of Pages |
88 |
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Poet, editor, and essayist David Gewanter was born in New York City to a pathologist and art gallery entrepreneur. He briefly studied medicine at the University of Michigan before majoring in intellectual history. Instead of graduating, he traveled to London for two years, where he read Keats’s manuscripts and was inspired to begin writing poetry. He graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan, where he won the Hopwood Award, and taught ESL in Barcelona before earning a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley.
