Poetry. "Fink collages fractured dialogue, political farce, pop song lyrics, and tabloid tidbits to make his deliberate music and 'tactful oomph.'"--Denise Duhamel "If you want plain speech, go to the groves of academe...But if you want plain speech that dances like fleas on a hot griddle, you've come to the right place...Everyone in our family, whatever that is, is a martian; now we need to listen to what they are saying. Tom Fink does that and more."--John Yau "PEACE CONFERENCE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011) is a ...
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Poetry. "Fink collages fractured dialogue, political farce, pop song lyrics, and tabloid tidbits to make his deliberate music and 'tactful oomph.'"--Denise Duhamel "If you want plain speech, go to the groves of academe...But if you want plain speech that dances like fleas on a hot griddle, you've come to the right place...Everyone in our family, whatever that is, is a martian; now we need to listen to what they are saying. Tom Fink does that and more."--John Yau "PEACE CONFERENCE (Marsh Hawk Press, 2011) is a remarkable collection of poems which encourages one to read, reread, and finally participate in the construction of a poetic space that liberates as much as it channels emotional flow."--Susan Smith Nash "My admiration of Tom Fink's poetry is enormous.. The 'Dusk Bowl Intimacies' represent a triumph in contemporary poetry."--Sheila E. Murphy
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