We Don't Know We Don't Know

Taking its title from a dodging statement from former secretary of defense Donald Rumsfeld, We Don’t Know We Don’t Know assesses what it means to claim new knowledge within a culture that professes to know everything already. The result is a poetry that upends the deeply and dangerously assumed concepts of such a culture—that new knowledge is always better knowledge, that history is a steady progress, that humans are in control of the natural order.

Year

2010

Language

English

Series

Winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Editions

1

Pages

96

ISBN

9781555975524

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