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Standing Around The Heart: Poems (University of Arkansas Press Poetry)
Standing Around The Heart Poems - University of Arkansas Press Poetry Author:Gary Fincke Gary Fincke's new collection is a poetry grounded in memorable places and characters. He wants readers to remember the voices they hear in the poems, the work the characters do, the families they have, the things they believe in and strive to live up to. These poems compel their inhabitants to recognize they must rely on themselves, and the effo... more »rt they make is what redeems them and makes them admirable in sometimes small ways, but often, in large, important ways. There is a sense of the larger world layered into nearly every poem--history, politics, science, culture. This connects them to readers regardless of particular experience. Many are poems about the mysteries of adolescence, retrospective poems about youthful dreaming and wishing. These are free verse poems, conversational in tone and with a lyrical intensity.« less