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Author: Thomas Fink

Thomas Fink has published 11 previous books of poetry-most recently A PAGEANT FOR EVERY ADDICTION (Marsh Hawk P, 2020), written collaboratively with Maya D. Mason, Hedge Fund Certainty (Meritage P and i.e. P, 2019) and SELECTED POEMS & POETIC SERIES (Marsh Hawk, 2016). He is the author of Reading Poetry with College and University Students: Overcoming Barriers and Deepening Engagement (Bloomsbury, 2022). Other books include A Different Sense of Power: Problems of Community in Late Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) and the co-edited anthology, Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry (U of Alabama P, 2014). His work appeared in Best American Poetry 2007, edited by David Lehman and Heather McHugh. Fink's paintings hang in various collections. He is Professor of English at CUNY- LaGuardia.

After Taxes
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After Taxes

Marsh Hawk Press

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 t...

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Clarity and Other Poems
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Clarity and Other Poems

Marsh Hawk Press

Poetry. Teeming with the fragments of ancestors' whispers and mistranslated ad lingo, these poems are intricate and wildly disjunctive. We may be stuck in a world where "Casinos are in every cortex," but that doesn't mean that there isn't also room ...

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Gossip: A Book of Poems
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Gossip: A Book of Poems

Marsh Hawk Press

Poetry. "Reading Thomas Fink's GOSSIP leaves you giddy and satiated, just like a good `dirt' session should! Fink collages fractured dialogue, political farce, pop song lyrics, and tabloid tidbits to make his deliberate music and `tactful oomph.' Th...

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Joyride
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Joyride

Marsh Hawk Press

Poetry. "Thomas Fink is a unique craftsman and perhaps one of the best to write poems in form—but Fink's brilliance is his inability to tell anything straight...Fink knows how to write poems that challenge the mind, pleasure the eye, tickle the tong...

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Peace Conference
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Peace Conference

Marsh Hawk Press

Poetry. Beginning with "Generic Whistle Stop," a long poem that rings myriad changes on political rhetoric, PEACE CONFERENCE goes on to extend such poetic series from prior books as the linguistically hybrid "Yinglish Strophes," the rocking/rolling ...

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Selected Poems & Poetic Series
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Selected Poems & Poetic Series

Marsh Hawk Press

Poetry. "Fink collages fractured dialogue, political farce, pop song lyrics, and tabloid tidbits to make his deliberate music and 'tactful oomph.'"—Denise Duhamel"If you want plain speech, go to the groves of academe...But if you want plain speech t...

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Zeugma
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Zeugma

Marsh Hawk Press, Inc.

Charles Bernstein calls ZEUGMA “Fresh marvelous exuberant lyric wildness"“Fink’s poems are an invitation to a dance: they spur a conversation with the future, the past, and the present. I enjoy seeing how the anxieties of antecedents play out: one v...

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