Thomas Fink
Inter
minable
dialectics
could be
the only
rule that’s
lasted as long as
the building. A central
voice closes the book
from which we have been
departing all term. S/he shreds
the roses brought to buy judg ment
inflation. “A fool will claim that we ‘fail’
one who pays for our company. As sessment
might delay or grant an invitation to re tool or
find a happy detour.” The judge supposes they’ll
see this as superior to later devastation tailing
rewarded lack, but hasn’t one who poses as a slander
ed jewel heard only “fail”? A shredded rose will suit the
book’s blank cover. Embedded in each learner, I hope stren
uously, along with brute resentment of foreign criteria for ad
vancement, is a plank favoring abundant dialectics’ pungent fruit.
Thomas Fink's fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in Spring, 2008. A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he and Joseph Lease co-edited Burning Interiors: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. Heather McHugh and David Lehman selected his poem, “Yinglish Strophes IX,” for The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner’s). His paintings hang in various collections.
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Inter
minable
dialectics
could be
the only
rule that’s
lasted as long as
the building. A central
voice closes the book
from which we have been
departing all term. S/he shreds
the roses brought to buy judg ment
inflation. “A fool will claim that we ‘fail’
one who pays for our company. As sessment
might delay or grant an invitation to re tool or
find a happy detour.” The judge supposes they’ll
see this as superior to later devastation tailing
rewarded lack, but hasn’t one who poses as a slander
ed jewel heard only “fail”? A shredded rose will suit the
book’s blank cover. Embedded in each learner, I hope stren
uously, along with brute resentment of foreign criteria for ad
vancement, is a plank favoring abundant dialectics’ pungent fruit.
Thomas Fink's fifth book of poetry, Clarity and Other Poems, was published by Marsh Hawk Press in Spring, 2008. A Different Sense of Power (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) is his most recent book of criticism, and in 2007, he and Joseph Lease co-edited Burning Interiors: David Shapiro’s Poetry and Poetics. Heather McHugh and David Lehman selected his poem, “Yinglish Strophes IX,” for The Best American Poetry 2007 (Scribner’s). His paintings hang in various collections.
1 Comments:
Marvelous, precise, rewarding work, Tom. Bravo on the structure!
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