You Don’T Say: Random Essays and Fugitive Thoughts

Edward M. Cifelli

jul. del 2017 · iUniverse

Sobre aquest llibre

In You Dont Say Edward Cifelli collects 68 previously published essays and fugitive thoughts. It is a miscellany that records some of the things, large and small, that have claimed his attention between 2012 and 2017, between his 70th and 75th birthdaysand his attention ranges far and wide, from Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama to Joe Maddon and the Ronettes; from Henry David Thoreau and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow to Keurig coffee makers and New York Times crossword puzzles; from the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI and the discovery of the God Particle to lottery statistics and lost golf balls. Part of the fun of the book is its crazy quilt of the important and unimportantand how they look after Cifelli stops to think about them.

From Whining Poets: They attend each others readings and pretend there is a place for them someplace else in the literate universe. That is delusional, but its a fiction they all hold on tojust as they hold on to the idea that they are under-read and under-appreciated. Their usual posture is a sort of hang-dog look of disappointment and loft y superiority, a difficult combination that they manage with the same irritating panache observed in perpetually misunderstood teenagers.

Sobre l'autor

Edward Cifelli is a retired professor of American Literature. He has written literary biographies of poets David Humphreys and John Ciardi and is completing a new book on Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He has also edited collections of poems, essays, and letters, and introductions, afterwords, and prefaces for the Signet Classics editions on Dante, Milton, and Longfellow. He wrote a memoir Random Miracles that was published in 2011—and he spent 13 years as the movie critic for a daily newspaper, the New Jersey Herald.