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Norman Finkelstein (born 1954) is an American
Review of ''Scribe'' by Robert Archambeau in The Offending Adam
Review of ''Track'' by Henry Weinfield in Notre Dame Review.
*Henry Weinfield, "Passing Through" eview of ''Passing Over'' ''Shofar'' 27.3 (Spring 2009): 151-155. *Burt Kimmelman, "Objectivist Poetics Since 1970" in ''The World In Time and Space: Toward a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time'', ed. Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue (Talisman House, 2002), 161-184. *Eric Murphy Selinger, "Azoy Toot a Yid: Secular Poetics and 'The Jewish Way,'" in ''Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture'', ed. Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris (Alabama, 2010), 354-377.
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Norman Finkelstein (born 1954) is an American poet
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and literary critic. He has written extensively about modern
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and postmodern poetry and about Jewish American literature
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. According to ''Tablet Magazine
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'', Finkelstein's poetry "is simultaneously secular and religious, stately and conversational, prophetic, and circumspect."
Finkelstein was born in New York City. He earned his B.A. from Binghamton University and his Ph.D. from Emory University
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. He was a Professor of English at Xavier University
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in Cincinnati, Ohio., retiring in April 2020 title=College of Arts and Sciences Recent Retirees Spring 2021
Books of poetry
* ''The Objects In Your Life'' (House of Keys, Atlanta, 1977) * ''Restless Messengers'' (Georgia, 1992) * ''Track'': three volumes. ''Track'' (Spuyten Duyvil, 1999), ''Columns'' (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002), and ''Powers'' (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005) * ''Passing Over'' ( Marsh Hawk Press, 2007) * ''Scribe'' (Dos Madres Press Dos Madres Press is a small press based in Loveland, Ohio. The press, founded in 2004, specializes in books of poetry. Authors published by the press include Norman Finkelstein, Richard Hague, Michael Heller, Roald Hoffmann, Keith Holyoak, Burt ...
, 2009)
* ''Inside the Ghost Factory'' ''(Marsh Hawk Press, 2010)''
* ''Track'' (complete poem in one volume, Shearsman Books, 2012)
Books of literary criticism
* ''The Utopian Moment in Contemporary American Literature'' (Bucknell, 1988, 1993) * ''The Ritual of New Creation: Jewish Tradition and Contemporary Literature'' (SUNY, 1992) * ''Not One of Them In Place: Modern Poetry and Jewish American Identity'' (SUNY, 2002) * '' Lyrical Interference: Essays on Poetics'' (Spuyten Duyvil, 2004) * ''On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred In Contemporary American Poetry'' (Iowa, 2010)References
Further reading
Review of ''Scribe'' by Robert Archambeau in The Offending Adam
*Henry Weinfield, "Passing Through" eview of ''Passing Over'' ''Shofar'' 27.3 (Spring 2009): 151-155. *Burt Kimmelman, "Objectivist Poetics Since 1970" in ''The World In Time and Space: Toward a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time'', ed. Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue (Talisman House, 2002), 161-184. *Eric Murphy Selinger, "Azoy Toot a Yid: Secular Poetics and 'The Jewish Way,'" in ''Radical Poetics and Secular Jewish Culture'', ed. Stephen Paul Miller and Daniel Morris (Alabama, 2010), 354-377.
External links
* *Finkelstein page aPennSound
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