The Necessary Going On - Fincke, Gary

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Biographie:
Gary Fincke's poetry collections have won prizes from Ohio State, Arkansas, Michigan State, Stephen F. Austin, and Jacar Press. Individual poems have received the Bess Hokin Prize from Poetry, been reprinted twice by Harper's, and been selected for a Pushcart Prize. His books in other genres have won the Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction, the Elixir Press Fiction Prize, and the 2017 Robert C. Jones Prize for Nonfiction. Since 1984, he has published forty books of poetry, short fiction, and nonfiction, including a novel-in-stories How Blasphemy Sounds to God and the memoir Amp'd: A Father's Backstage Pass, an account of immersing himself in his younger son's life as the lead guitarist of the platinum-selling rock band Breaking Benjamin. He is the Emeritus Charles Degenstein Professor of Creative Writing at Susquehanna University, where he founded and then directed, for more than twenty years, the Writers Institute and the nationally recognized undergraduate creative writing major....

Sommaire:
Selected from his sixteen poetry collections, published between 1980 and 2025, the poems in The Necessary Going On by Gary Fincke demonstrates that No one plumbs mystery's dark like Gary Fincke, no one does bracing tenderness like Gary Fincke, and no one tends the house of memory with more rigor and insight than Gary Fincke. (Catherine Pierce) As stated by former Delaware Poet Laureate, Fleda Brown, If I were to locate a center of gravity in this new collection it would be the delicate, loving, study of what it means to be a man, a husband, a father, a witness to the damages the world inflicts. That understanding and confronting that 'what we are is temporary,' this gathering of work written over forty years demonstrates again and again Finke's insistence on faith in the tremulous connections among us and how, despite the violence of this age, of any age, we go on 'to sing our songs of endurance.' (Michael Waters)...