The News and Other PoemsIn The News and Other Poems, David Citino confronts and attempts to make sense of the news. He explores the good and bad ways the world has of careening into a life and sending it off course. Citino tries to understand how we come to know what we know, driven as we are by haughty assumptions about the world were making and the control we think we exert over our own lives and loves. While still holding romantic notions of ivory towers and ivy covered