Tuesday, November 30, 2004
SPD RECOMMENDS THOMAS FINK'S AFTER TAXES!
From the latest notice of SPD's RECOMMENDED NEW TITLES for Oct 29-Nov 15, 2004, this welcome excerpt:
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FAX: 1-510-524-0852
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AFTER TAXES
by Fink, Thomas
$15.00 / PA / pp.100
Marsh Hawk Press, 2004
ISBN: 0-9759197-5-X
Poetry. "After taxes, when most of us feel fleeced, Thomas Fink opens his secret accounts. The wealth of his world is acoustic, and endless, and available to all. By turns observant and inventive, these poems find the parts of our lives beyond all tithes, turning our obligations and debts into freedom and abundance. No one listens like this poet does, or so shows us the hidden worth of our words"--Joseph Donahue.
http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=097591975X
From the latest notice of SPD's RECOMMENDED NEW TITLES for Oct 29-Nov 15, 2004, this welcome excerpt:
ORDERS: 1-800-869-7553
ORDERS@SPDBOOKS.ORG
FAX: 1-510-524-0852
WWW.SPDBOOKS.ORG
Try Electronic Ordering! SPD is on PUBNET (SAN #106-6617)
Questions? Contact Brent Cunningham at brent@spdbooks.org
AFTER TAXES
by Fink, Thomas
$15.00 / PA / pp.100
Marsh Hawk Press, 2004
ISBN: 0-9759197-5-X
Poetry. "After taxes, when most of us feel fleeced, Thomas Fink opens his secret accounts. The wealth of his world is acoustic, and endless, and available to all. By turns observant and inventive, these poems find the parts of our lives beyond all tithes, turning our obligations and debts into freedom and abundance. No one listens like this poet does, or so shows us the hidden worth of our words"--Joseph Donahue.
http://www.spdbooks.org/details.asp?bookid=097591975X
Thursday, November 25, 2004
THE PUBLIC IS CORDIALLY INVITED TO:
Marsh Hawk Press cordially invites you to a reception and reading celebrating our Fall 204 books
Imperfect Fit by Martha King
After Taxes by Thomas Fink
Night Lights by Jane Augustine
Thursday, December 9th, 6-8 PM
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
5 Union Square West
Manhattan
rsvp: MarshHawkPress@cs.com
see: marshhawkpress.org
Please come for good conversation, poetry, eats and drinks.
Marsh Hawk Press cordially invites you to a reception and reading celebrating our Fall 204 books
Imperfect Fit by Martha King
After Taxes by Thomas Fink
Night Lights by Jane Augustine
Thursday, December 9th, 6-8 PM
Teachers & Writers Collaborative
5 Union Square West
Manhattan
rsvp: MarshHawkPress@cs.com
see: marshhawkpress.org
Please come for good conversation, poetry, eats and drinks.
Monday, November 15, 2004
THOMAS FINK AND BASIL KING RECEIVES REVIEWS!
Eileen Tabios reviews four books by Basil King, including MIRAGE: a poem in 22 parts. Published in Jacket #26, edited by John Tranter.
Thomas Fink receives a blog review from Tom Beckett's "Unprotected Texts" Blog. As the blog's entries get frequently updated, we are reproducing Mr. Beckett's review here:
Gossip: A Book of Poems
by Thomas Fink
Marsh Hawk Press, 2001
$10.00
Review by Tom Beckett
I'm fond of family remembrances--gossip-- enjoy chatter about those I know and love. What I like best about this book by Tom Fink is how he collages the language that occurs within a family, particulary the words of his daughter Maya, to create luminous works of art.
I'll confess to a bit of nostalgia. I'm remembering our children when they were very young. A particular image comes to mind of our oldest child, Mischa, as a toddler...An autumn day, she's in front of a bay window looking out toward trees bending in the wind, and she's waving her hand in greeting at the trees she believes to be waving to her. Or youngest daughter, Claire (she was perhaps 4 or 5), running into the house scared--"There's an owl in the backyard!" It was a toad.
Children are so vivid and invested in magical thinking. And Fink captures that quality very well. Consider this little section of "And Called It Milk":
When my teeth
leave home,
they'll pass into the moon
and bring even more bone
that makes it glowing.
There's only one moon at night
and no shortcut.
Why does the really important news
get shushed?
Today I ate a whole apple
and gave the core to you.
Gossip is a rich and lovely book.
Eileen Tabios reviews four books by Basil King, including MIRAGE: a poem in 22 parts. Published in Jacket #26, edited by John Tranter.
Thomas Fink receives a blog review from Tom Beckett's "Unprotected Texts" Blog. As the blog's entries get frequently updated, we are reproducing Mr. Beckett's review here:
Gossip: A Book of Poems
by Thomas Fink
Marsh Hawk Press, 2001
$10.00
Review by Tom Beckett
I'm fond of family remembrances--gossip-- enjoy chatter about those I know and love. What I like best about this book by Tom Fink is how he collages the language that occurs within a family, particulary the words of his daughter Maya, to create luminous works of art.
I'll confess to a bit of nostalgia. I'm remembering our children when they were very young. A particular image comes to mind of our oldest child, Mischa, as a toddler...An autumn day, she's in front of a bay window looking out toward trees bending in the wind, and she's waving her hand in greeting at the trees she believes to be waving to her. Or youngest daughter, Claire (she was perhaps 4 or 5), running into the house scared--"There's an owl in the backyard!" It was a toad.
Children are so vivid and invested in magical thinking. And Fink captures that quality very well. Consider this little section of "And Called It Milk":
When my teeth
leave home,
they'll pass into the moon
and bring even more bone
that makes it glowing.
There's only one moon at night
and no shortcut.
Why does the really important news
get shushed?
Today I ate a whole apple
and gave the core to you.
Gossip is a rich and lovely book.
Thursday, November 04, 2004
MARSH HAWK PRESS AWARDED A NYSCA GRANT
Great News. New York State Council on the Arts has awarded a grant to Marsh Hawk Press. The grant is from the New York State Literary Publishers Capacity Fund with support from the New York State Council on the Arts to assist New York State publishers in building their organizational capacity, and toward possibly applying directly to NYSCA in the future.
Marsh Hawk thanks the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)!
Great News. New York State Council on the Arts has awarded a grant to Marsh Hawk Press. The grant is from the New York State Literary Publishers Capacity Fund with support from the New York State Council on the Arts to assist New York State publishers in building their organizational capacity, and toward possibly applying directly to NYSCA in the future.
Marsh Hawk thanks the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP)!
Jonathan Mayhew reads Thomas Fink
and blogs about Tom's poem, "Eel Chord". Here's Jonathan's reading:
FROM JONATHAN MAYHEW'S "BEMSHA SWING":
EEL CHORD
Enough
fluid hokum,
molten dweeb.
Atop berg,
vine diva
davens
steam:
rusting fronds,
sweat lines
on sky
level. Stunned
mica blush.
--Thomas Fink (from After Taxes)
The sheer hilarity of this illustrates the Kenneth Koch motto I have in my blog description immediately to your left. Comedy is as cathartic, as cleansing, as tragedy. That such poetry should exist at all should fill us with wonder and awe and make us laugh out loud. ("Daven" means "to pray" in Yiddish, by the way. I had to look it up.) A little bit of Fink's poetry goes a long way. "Motel / with permanent no- / vacancy scowl: chipped latex." The exactitude of that, corrosive. A benchmark. Measure it against poets who subtract rather than add to the language. It's an ethical imperative for me. There is truth in my exaggerations.
and blogs about Tom's poem, "Eel Chord". Here's Jonathan's reading:
FROM JONATHAN MAYHEW'S "BEMSHA SWING":
EEL CHORD
Enough
fluid hokum,
molten dweeb.
Atop berg,
vine diva
davens
steam:
rusting fronds,
sweat lines
on sky
level. Stunned
mica blush.
--Thomas Fink (from After Taxes)
The sheer hilarity of this illustrates the Kenneth Koch motto I have in my blog description immediately to your left. Comedy is as cathartic, as cleansing, as tragedy. That such poetry should exist at all should fill us with wonder and awe and make us laugh out loud. ("Daven" means "to pray" in Yiddish, by the way. I had to look it up.) A little bit of Fink's poetry goes a long way. "Motel / with permanent no- / vacancy scowl: chipped latex." The exactitude of that, corrosive. A benchmark. Measure it against poets who subtract rather than add to the language. It's an ethical imperative for me. There is truth in my exaggerations.
Monday, November 01, 2004
POETIC INHALATION ANNOUNCES THAT
Tin Lustre Mobile volume 4 issue 7 is illustrated by the artistry of Thomas Fink...
With Featured Poets:
g. calhoun truluck
fortunato caragliano
ishle park
jd nelson
steve timm
shannon holman
w.b keckler
Tin Lustre Mobile volume 4 issue 7 is illustrated by the artistry of Thomas Fink...
With Featured Poets:
g. calhoun truluck
fortunato caragliano
ishle park
jd nelson
steve timm
shannon holman
w.b keckler
NEW E-CHAPBOOK BY ROCHELLE RATNER
NEWSREAL: 2003
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OUT JUST IN TIME FOR THE ELECTIONS
if you think it's been a bad four years,
check out these prose-poems based on news stories of 2003
NEWSREAL: 2003
FREE
FROM TAMAFYHR MOUNTAIN POETRY
WWW.TMPOETRY.COM
OUT JUST IN TIME FOR THE ELECTIONS
if you think it's been a bad four years,
check out these prose-poems based on news stories of 2003
