Powers: Track Volume Three [Paperback]

Norman Finkelstein (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1933132051 | ISBN-13: 978-1933132051 | Publication Date: September 15, 2005

Poetry. POWERS: TRACK VOLUME THREE is third and last volume of the serial poem begun in Track and continued in Columns. "Paradise is the track we're following in this poem, the spoor we're on, the prey we're tracking. . . . Reworking a poetic midrash in the light of Jabes, availing himself of a deceptively simple poetic line which has antecedents in Michael Palmer's recent work, and then referring to scriptural hermeneutics throughout, Finkelstein has created an amazing new kind of poem: as tensile as it is frangible, as spiritually reviving as it is philosophically zeroing" - Peter O'Leary. "The act of reading, after all, always leaves "some other's / dreams" at least partially "enfolded in the self." Finkelstein's gift, in Track, lies in his ability to stay half self-conscious and half spellbound by those others' dreams"--Eric Selinger.

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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: 104 pages
• Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil (September 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933132051
• ISBN-13: 978-1933132051
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 5.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,896,883 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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