Description
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 that dances like fleas on a hot griddle, you've come to the right place...Everyone in our family, whatever that is, is a martian; now we need to listen to what they are saying. Tom Fink does that and more."—John Yau
"PEACE CONFERENCE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011) is a remarkable collection of poems which encourages one to read, reread, and finally participate in the construction of a poetic space that liberates as much as it channels emotional flow."—Susan Smith Nash
"My admiration of Tom Fink's poetry is enormous.. The 'Dusk Bowl Intimacies' represent a triumph in contemporary poetry."—Sheila E. Murphy
Author Bio
Thomas Fink, born in New York City in 1954, is the author of eight previous books of poetry—most recently, Joyride (Marsh Hawk Press, 2013). He has authored two books of criticism, including A Different Sense of Power: Problems of Community in Late-Twentieth Century U.S. Poetrry (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001), and has co-edited two collections of criticism, including Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry (University of Alabama Press, 2014). His poem, "Yinglish Strophes 9," was selected for The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner's) by Heather McHugh and David Lehman. His paintings hang in various collections. Fink is Professor of English at City University of New York-LaGuardia.
Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA