Columns: Track Volume II [Paperback]

Norman Finkelstein (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2002

Finkelstein'ss Track undertakes a voyage beset by recombinatory duress. An excursus through realms where the letters/arrive to be destroyed, this wickedly wise poem keeps on arriving long after it's done-a lingering track or trade of mind in mind, trouble in mind. It is a beautiful, beguiling book of unrest.--Nathaniel Mackey

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Finkelstein's Track undertakes a voyage beset by recombinatory duress. An excursus through realms where the letters/arrive to be destroyed, this wickedly wise poem keeps on arriving long after it's done-a lingering track or trade of mind in mind, trouble in mind. It is a beautiful, beguiling book of unrest. --Nathaniel Mackey

About the Author

Norman Finkelstein was born in New York City in 1954. He received his B.A. from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. from Emory University. He is a Professor of English at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he has lived since 1980. His books of poetry include Restless Messengers (Georgia, 1992), PASSING OVER (Marsh Hawk, 2007), and the three-volume serial poem Track: Track (Spuyten Duyvil, 1999), Columns (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002), and POWERS: TRACK VOLUME THREE (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005). He has also written extensively about modern and postmodern poetry, and about Jewish literature. His books of criticism include Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity (SUNY, 2002) and Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics (Spuyten Duyvil, 2004). On Mt. Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry will be published by the University of Iowa Press in 2010.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil (March 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881471829
• ISBN-13: 978-1881471820
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,527,698 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)