The Invention Of Secrecy

In The Invention of Secrecy his eleventh collection of poetry David Citinosearches near and far in his native Ohio illuminated suddenly by a cosmicmessenger in... » 

In The Invention of Secrecy his eleventh collection of poetry David Citinosearches near and far in his native Ohio illuminated suddenly by a cosmicmessenger in Italy and Egypt ancient and new in Tibet even in prehistoricand preliterary times seeking answers to the most human questions What didwe reverence in the past? What are our present obsessions? What does it mean toread one another? Must we always speak in our parents voices?The underlying concern of these poems is the very notion of secrecy and in hisexplorations Citino investigates the lives and credentials of our saints both secular and otherworldly. Ramses the Great the prophet Hosea the Romanemperor Vespasian Caravaggio the Wicked Witch of the West Padre Pio MarioLanza and Princess Diana are among the largerthanlife personagesmaterializing on these pages. Continually in these poems the past is read bylight of the present and the present from perspectives of the past.Accessible yet ambitious and treating all of history as the concern of thoseliving today these poems seek to measure the span of our lives and thedistance that separates one life from another. «