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Overview
In the poem "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower," William Carlos Williams writes: "It is difficult / to get the news from poems / yet men die miserably every day / for lack / of what is found there." Williams may have been right about that. However, Ed Werstein, in his book Communiqu Poems From The Headlines, tries to prove the converse: that you can get poetry from the news. Werstein's newest collection is sectioned like a newspaper, and the poems cover a variety of topics: national news, weather, sports.
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- ISBN-13: 9781952526022
- ISBN-10: 1952526027
- Publisher: Water's Edge Press LLC
- Publish Date: June 2021
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.25 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.36 pounds
- Page Count: 104
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