Bringing Back the Bones

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-62288-111-6
Verlag: Stephen F. Austin University Press

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 399 g

The poems in Bringing Back the Bones are startling intheir inclusiveness, juxtaposing history, science, myth,and popular culture with a narrative thread that risesfrom memory. Groups of distinctively individual poemsalternate with long poem sequences that range fromone based upon the difficulties of genius to one thatcontemplates the wondrous things that literally fall fromthe sky to the tile sequence, a meditation on the desirefor permanence.

As Robert Cording, author of Against Consolationand Common Life says, “Gary Fincke finds the wordsfor that lone, long labor of our lives that shapes who webecome and readies us for those moments when the‘possibility of happiness/surprise[s] us.’ He combinesthe empathy of Philip Levine for our ordinary livesand the thinking intelligence of Carl Dennis. His greatgift, like Levine’s and Dennis’, is the way he so casuallyconnects his own life to those worlds, his poems alwaysconvincing the reader with their intelligence, with theirsubtle wit and humor, and with their deep feeling asthey simultaneously strive for a history of permanenceand comically acknowledge our human failures.”

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fincke, Gary

Über Autor(innen)

One of his generation’s most accomplished poets, GaryFincke is also the author of short fiction and nonfiction.Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA Fincke earnedhis bachelor of arts degree from Thiel College, his masterof art from Miami University, and his PhD from KentState University in 1974. He began his literary career thatsame year and has published more than 20 works. Finckeis a professor at Susquehanna University in Selinsgrove,Pennsylvania, where he is also the director of the WritersInstitute. He lives with his wife in Selinsgrove.