Poetry. "After taxes, when most of us feel fleeced, Thomas Fink opens his secret accounts. The wealth of his world is acoustic, and endless, and available to all. By turns observant and inventive, these poems find the parts of our lives beyond all tithes, turning our obligations and debts into freedom and abundance. No one listens like this poet does, or so shows us the hidden worth of our words"—Joseph Donahue.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Thomas Fink, born in New York City in 1954, is the author of six books of poetry, including PEACE CONFERENCE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011) and CLARITY AND OTHER POEMS (Marsh Hawk Press, 2008), three chapbooks, and Autopsy Turvy (Meritage Press, 2010), a book of collaborative poetry with Maya Diablo Mason. He is also the author of two books of criticism, including "A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late-Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry (airleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001). With Joseph Lease, he is co-editor of "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2007). His poem "Yinglish Strophes IX" was selected for The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner's) by Heather McHugh and David Lehman. Fink's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Barrow Street, Chicago Review, Contemporary Literature, DENVER QUARTERLY, Jacket, LIT, Milk, Minnesota Review, MiPoesias, Otoliths, Second Avenue Poetry, SENTENCE, Shampoo, Slope, TALISMAN, Verse, and numerous other journals. His paintings hang in various collections. Fink is Professor of English at City University of New York—LaGuardia.

Reviews and Other Links
http://galatearesurrection.blogspot.com/2006/03/after-taxes-by-thomas-fink.html
http://jacketmagazine.com/26/seng-fink.html