Thomas Fink (poet) explained

Thomas Fink
Birth Name:	Thomas Fink
Field:	poetry, literary criticism

Thomas Fink (born 1954) is a poet and literary critic.^[1] He is the author of eleven books of poetry, two books of criticism, and a literature anthology, and he has co-edited two critical anthologies. He was featured in the 2007 edition of Scribner’s The Best American Poetry.^[2] Fink is a professor of English at City University of New York—LaGuardia.^[3]

Works

Books of Poetry

• A Pageant for Every Addiction. Marsh Hawk Press. 2020
• Hedge Fund Certainty Meritage Press and I. e. Press. 2019.
• Selected Poems & Poetic Series. Marsh Hawk Press. 2016.
• Joyride. Marsh Hawk Press. 2013.
• Book: Peace Conference.. Marsh Hawk Press. 2011.
• Book: Autopsy Turvy. Meritage Press. 2010.
• Book: Clarity and Other Poems.. Marsh Hawk Press. 2008.
• No Appointment Necessary. Moria Poetry. 2006.
• Book: After Taxes.. registration. Marsh Hawk Press. 2004.
• Book: Gossip.. Marsh Hawk Press. 2001.
• Book: Surprise Visit.. Domestic Press. 1993.

Books of Criticism and Edited Books

• Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry. University of Alabama Press. 2014.
• Book: "Burning Interiors": David Shapiro's Poetry and Poetics.. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 2007.
• Book: "A Different Sense of Power": Problems of Community in Late Twentieth-Century U.S. Poetry.. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press . 2001.
• Book: Literature around the Globe.. Kendall/Hunt. 1994.
• Book: The Poetry of David Shapiro.. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press . 1993.

Further reading

• Book: Bernstein, Charles. Objectivist Blues: Scoring Speech in Second Wave Modernist Poetry and Lyrics. Attack of the Difficult Poems. . U of Chicago Press. 2011.
• Book: Tabios, Eileen. Ay, Nako! Thomas Fink's Visual Poetry: The Hay(na)ku Paintings. Silences: The Autobiography of Loss. . Blue Lion Books. 2007.
• James Roderick Burns. Review of No Appointment Necessary. Book/Mark (Winter 2008): 5-6. Print.
• Patricia Carlin. “Patricia Carlin Presents a Poem by Thomas Fink.” Best American Poetry Blog. 15 Nov. 2009. Web.
• Barry Dordick. “After Taxes by Thomas Fink.” Galatea Resurrects 1 (Mar. 2006) Web.
• Freedman, Lewis. “This Collision of Multiplicity and Singularity: A Review of Thomas Fink’s ‘Yinglish Strophes 1-19.” Jacket 2 (2012). Web.
• Noah Eli Gordon. Review of After Taxes. Xantippe 3 (2005): 109-114. Print.
• Judith Halden-Sullivan. “(Im)possible Surprises: On Fink’s Surprise Visit.” Minnesota Review. 43-44 (1995): 276-80. Print.
• M.D.H. Johnson. “After Taxes.” Book/Mark (Winter 2005): 6-7. Print.
• Steven Karl. Review of Clarity and Other Poems. Galatea Resurrects 12 (May 2009) Web.
• Kimmelman, Burt. "Let 'em eat kitsch: A Review of Thomas Fink's 'Joyride.'" Jacket 2 (2014). Web.
• Louis McKee. “Number Forty-Eight.” American Book Review 26.6 (September/October 2005): 25, 31. Print.
• Stephen Paul Miller. “Periodizing Ashbery and His Influence.” The Tribe of John: Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry. Ed. Susan M. Schultz. *Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995: 146-7. Print.
• Daniel Morris. Review of Gossip. Confrontation. 82/83 (Spring/Summer 2003): 327-9. Print.
• Susan Smith Nash. “On Thomas Fink’s Peace Conference.” Press 1. 5.3 (Jan.-Apr. 2012). Web.
• Tim Peterson. Review of No Appointment Necessary. Galatea Resurrects 6 (May 2007) Web.
• Shivaji Sengupta. “Absence, Presence, and Meaning: Thomas Fink’s After Taxes.” Jacket 26 (Oct. 2004) Web.^[4]
• Carole Stone. “Review of Thomas Fink’s After Taxes.” Moria Poetry Journal. 7.3 & 4(Winter/Spring 2005) Web.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Thomas Fink. www.marshhawkpress.org. 2016-03-04.
2. Web site: Best American Poetry 2007, Guest Edited by Heather McHugh. www.bestamericanpoetry.com. 2016-03-04.
3. Web site: Laguardia - English Department - Faculty Directory. www.laguardia.edu. 2016-03-04.
4. Web site: Jacket 26 - October 2004 - Shivaji Sengupta reviews "After Taxes" by Thomas Fink. jacketmagazine.com. 2016-03-04.