FINKEL, DONALD — Selected Shorter Poems
Atheneum, 1987. Hardcover. ISBN: 0689118554. SIGNED, inscribed by the author. For xxxx, With Warmest Wishes, Donald Finkel. 209 pages. Clean text, good binding. Donald Finkel, 1929-2008, from his NY Times obituary: “There was little high-flown abstraction in his poetry, and little lofty diction. Writing in colloquial free verse and butting normally disparate subjects against each other, he deliberately blurred the boundaries between the animate and inanimate, the mythic and the mundane, the sacred and the profane. ” Poems divided into sections that include: From The Clothing's New Emperor; From Simeon; From A Joyful Noise; From The Garbage Wars; From A Mote In Heaven's Eye; From What Manner of Beast; From The Detachable Man; ; Signed by Author. VG/G .