War Bird
- Contents
- Review Quotes

Acknowledgments
The Old Parables
I. Day Book
In again Out again
Body Text
Hamlet of Merano: The Lotus Eaters
Break-Up Café
Baudelaire’s Day Book
Desaparecidos
The Giants’ Causeway
Book of the Blurbers
Three at 4:43
1972: The Battery
II. American Incognito
Jacopone Pietà:Justice
American Incognito
Pediment
Michelangelo: Three Poems in Black
Mistress Umlaut
Möbius
Surrey: Walled Garden
Against the Grain
Cook at Maui
III. War Bird
War Bird: A Journal
Notes
“This disciplining, demanding writing itself is enough to recommend David Gewanter’s new collection, as is its no uncertain pursuit of a politics that takes no prisoners. It’s common enough that poetry will use its wisdom to advance an agenda, but War Bird far surpasses that limited goal. The hard edge of its menacing wit, the severe tension of its layered lyricism, the implied magnitude of its statement combine to effect a moral force. This is poetry in a language that matters.”
Literature and Literary Criticism: American and Canadian Literature
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