Barnstorming Ohio Quotes

“Most poems should enlarge our sense of politics. It’s the job of poetry to try to complicate. Poetry acknowledges that life is much more”
― David Giffels, Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

“Poetry acknowledges that life is much more complicated than anything we can say about it, and especially anything politics can say about it.”
― David Giffels, Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

“Why does the nation turn to Ohio every four years to understand itself? Because all our struggles and all our scars and all our little bandstands and diners and neat little lawns have withstood fortunes and failures and promises and lies, quietly proving Robert Frost’s three-word definition of life: it goes on.”
― David Giffels, Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

“Authenticity—that overplayed and elusive concept—is one resource that the postindustrial Midwest has in spades.”
― David Giffels, Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America

“I know this because we Ohioans always know if someone is from here, no matter how tenuous the connection. It is a habit of humble places. If you mention”
― David Giffels, Barnstorming Ohio: To Understand America