Nation notes.(Brief Article)

Nation, The, August, 2004

It is rare enough when a book of poetry appears on the New York Times Best Seller List, but when it is by The Nation's own Deadline Poet, Calvin Trillin, attention must be paid. On the July 25 nonfiction list Trillin's Obliviously On He Sails (Random House), containing poems first published in this magazine, is number ten and gaining on number nine, Bob Woodward's Plan of Attack. Like Woodward, Trillin exposes the secret doings of the Bush Administration, as in the opus that begins, "One mystery I've tried to disentangle:/Why Cheney's head is always at an angle." The solution, in the final couplet: "The code is broken, after years of trying/He only cocks his head when he is lying." The source of the book's title, readers may recall, is Trillin's poem inspired by the...

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