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Standing around the Heart

Poems

Gary Fincke author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:University of Arkansas Press

Published:31st Jul '05

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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."

ISBN: 9781557287861

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 140g

104 pages