Article: The Book of Appassionata.(Review)(Brief Article)

by David Citino. Ohio State University Press, 178 pp., $18.95 (paper). In the witty foreword to his latest collection, Citino examines an ambivalence that has served him well over the years: is he the author of over a hundred poems written in the voice of Sister Mary Appassionata, or something else entirely - a "literary plagiarist" who takes dictation from his muse, the Yeats to Sister Mary's Crazy Jane? Luckily for readers, Citino sees no need to resolve this question, and gathered together for the first time here are Sister Mary's views on matters ranging from "The History of Virginity" to "The Existence of the Soul," from "Bird-Watching" to "Bird Droppings," to ...

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