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Overview

Thomas Fink delivers a linguistic treasure trove full of unbridled humor and subtle social commentary in poems with intricate visual configurations. The book features a long catalogue-poem of outrageous job-titles, additions to such longstanding series as “Yinglish Strophes,” “Goad,” and “Trojan Panopticon,” and two new series, “Mission Statement” and “Terse Rhymes.”

Reviews

“This is poetry for readers who revel in language’s elasticity, and a must-read for fans of experimental poetry who appreciate a keening lens on the capitalist labyrinth we navigate graily and lose our selfies in.”—Paolo Javier, Author of Court of the Dragon

“Fink collages fractured dialogue, political farce, pop song lyrics, and tabloid tidbits to make his deliberate music and ‘tactful oomph.’”—Denise Duhamel, Author of Second Story

Author Biography

Thomas Fink (born 1954) is a poet and literary critic. 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. Fink is a professor of English at City University of New York—LaGuardia.