We Don't Know We Don't Know
Subtitle: Poems
Edition: 1st
Series: Winner of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference Bakeless Prize
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9781555975524
Subjects: Poetry
Description: 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.