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Poems with a conversational tone and lyrical intensity Gary Fincke’s new collection is a poetry grounded in memorable places and characters. He wants readers to remember the voices they hear in the poems, the work the characters do, the families they have, the things they believe in and strive to live up to. There is also a sense of the larger world layered into nearly every poem—history, politics, science, culture. Here too are poems about the mysteries of adolescence, capturing moments of youthful dreaming and wishing. Told in a confiding tone, these are very accessible and inviting poems about the way we redeem ourselves daily, a poetry that, as distinguished poet and critic Edward Hirsch put it, “memorializes the past and honors the life lived.” “Standing around the Heart shows Gary Fincke at his inimitable best. . . . Fincke writes a poetry of abiding generosity, of true feeling and thought. His is an essential American voice.” —Rodney Jones, author of The Kingdom of the Instant “Marvelous poetry that is both accessible and yet strange, both true and yet mysterious.” —Andrew Hudgins, author of Ecstatic in the Poison “History may be one damned thing after another, but this book shows that the broken things of this world can be made to mean and sometimes even shine.” —Julia Kasdorf, author of Sleeping Preacher February 2005 104 pages, 5 1/2" x 8 1/2" $16.95 (s) paper ISBN 978-1-55728-786-1 | 1-55728-786-4 Poetry |
Standing
around the Heart