[New-Poetry] Fincke's 10th

[jforjames at aol.com]

"Know thyself" has been a starting place since those old Greeks. But?I know what?you're saying. It sounds a bit too easy. 
I think that for most of the general public?(that small part of it, anyway,?who may pay a little?attention to poetry), poetry is a place where looking at one's own life carefully, however subjectively,?is still permitted and encouraged. And there is something to be said for that in these dissociative?times.?I don't know Fincke's work at all, I'm afraid.?10 collections gets him?a Persistence Prize.
Finnegan


-----Original Message-----
From: James Cervantes <cervantes.james at gmail.com>
Sent: Mon, 8 Sep 2008 7:26 pm
Subject: Re: [New-Poetry] Fincke's 10th



"Fincke aims for the autobiographical" ?Is that a hurdle we should all aspire to clear? 



- Jim


On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 4:57 PM, <jforjames at aol.com> wrote:


http://www.dailyitem.com/0100_news/local_story_252000116.html

Local poet Gary Fincke publishes his 10th book
Personal memories highlighted

By Damian Gessel 
The Daily Item 


SELINSGROVE -- Local poet Gary Fincke has a talent for making the unfamiliar feel like home.

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Fincke tunes all of his keen senses on and doesn't ever shut them off in his newly-released full-length book of poetry, "The Fire Landscape." 


You weren't standing in the crowd for the Kent State shooting, you likely didn't know anyone hurt or killed, but Fincke makes you feel the gravity of that 38-year-old day, the weight of three generations of men, three lifetimes of looking back at the places and events that forever change us.


In this, his 10th book of poetry, Fincke aims for the autobiographical


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