Zeugma - Fink, Thomas

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Résumé :
Thomas Fink has published 11 previous books of poetrymost recently A PAGEANT FOR EVERY ADDICTION (Marsh Hawk P, 2020), written collaboratively with Maya D. Mason, Hedge Fund Certainty (Meritage P and i.e. P, 2019) and SELECTED POEMS & POETIC SERIES (Marsh Hawk, 2016). He is the author of Reading Poetry with College and University Students: Overcoming Barriers and Deepening Engagement (Bloomsbury, 2022). Other books include A Different Sense of Power: Problems of Community in Late TwentiethCentury U.S. Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) and the coedited anthology, Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry (U of Alabama P, 2014). His work appeared in Best American Poetry 2007, edited by David Lehman and Heather McHugh. Fink's paintings hang in various collections. He is Professor of English at CUNY LaGuardia....

Biographie:
Thomas Fink has published 11 previous books of poetrymost recently A PAGEANT FOR EVERY ADDICTION (Marsh Hawk P, 2020), written collaboratively with Maya D. Mason, Hedge Fund Certainty (Meritage P and i.e. P, 2019) and SELECTED POEMS & POETIC SERIES (Marsh Hawk, 2016). He is the author of Reading Poetry with College and University Students: Overcoming Barriers and Deepening Engagement (Bloomsbury, 2022). Other books include A Different Sense of Power: Problems of Community in Late TwentiethCentury U.S. Poetry (Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 2001) and the coedited anthology, Reading the Difficulties: Dialogues with Contemporary American Innovative Poetry (U of Alabama P, 2014). His work appeared in Best American Poetry 2007, edited by David Lehman and Heather McHugh. Fink's paintings hang in various collections. He is Professor of English at CUNY LaGuardia.

Sommaire:
but also, the book considered as a whole is a kind of zeugma. Throughout, disparate things are yoked, often by sound similarities or wordplays, forcing the reader to shift abruptly from one meaning to another, and ultimately to a place which includes both senses, but doesn't (can't) ever settle on only one. This to me is one important means by which the book captures the fragmented, unstable and confusing contemporary scene. As is also characteristic of this book, a device by which the bizarre and disturbing reality of our moment is evoked gives pleasure--...