Ebook {Epub PDF} Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse by Calvin Trillin

 · DOGFIGHT by Calvin Trillin. Calvin Trillin, the man who brought us Deciding the Next Decider, is back with DOGFIGHT: The Presidential Campaign in Verse. Fans of politics and/or poetry will like this, as will folks who like stuff that is funny. The book opens with this poem as a prelude: Let the Barking and Biting Begin.  · In his latest laugh-out-loud book of political verse, Calvin Trillin provides a riotous depiction of the presidential election campaign. Dogfight is a narrative poem interrupted regularly by other poems and occasionally by what the author calls a pause for prose (“Callista Gingrich, Aware That Her Husband Has Cheated On and Then Left Two Wives Who Had Serious Illnesses, Tries 5/5(14).  · In “Dogfight,” Calvin Trillin uses verse to recount the long road to the election, starting with Romney’s dog on the car roof and ending with a look ahead to the next time “candidates Author: Michiko Kakutani.

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