Poetry. "To read SCRIBE is to pass 'through a series of gates' into the paradoxical heart of the poem, where 'terror and enchantment,' the communal and the solitary, the light and the dark, the imaginings of adult and child come together in an ancient music entirely of our moment. Norman Finkelstein here articulates the permissions and responsive urgencies of poetic engagement, echoing now ballad music--or magic, now the muted voice of dailiness, now the lyric strains of desire"--Michael Palmer.

Author Hometown: CINCINNATI, OH USA



About the author: Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1954. He received his B.A. from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He is a Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has lived since 1980. He is the author of eight books of poetry and five books of literary criticism, and has written extensively about modern poetry and Jewish literature. His most recent books are SCRIBE (Dos Madres Press, 2009), On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2010), and INSIDE THE GHOST FACTORY (Marsh Hawk Press, 2010).

Reviews:
Robert Archambeau in The Offending Adam