Calendars

$19.95

by Annie Finch

“Annie Finch is an American original, a master of control who shows no fear of excess, and none of quietness either. With a perfect-pitch ear for the American tongue, she is a formalist as much in the tradition of Robert Duncan and Bernadette Mayer as of Hart Crane and John Berryman. Calendars is a marvelous book, filled with poems whose directness and simplicity are deceptive — they have depths and delights that appear to go on forever.” —Ron Silliman

by Annie Finch

“Annie Finch is an American original, a master of control who shows no fear of excess, and none of quietness either. With a perfect-pitch ear for the American tongue, she is a formalist as much in the tradition of Robert Duncan and Bernadette Mayer as of Hart Crane and John Berryman. Calendars is a marvelous book, filled with poems whose directness and simplicity are deceptive — they have depths and delights that appear to go on forever.” —Ron Silliman

About the Author

Annie Finch is author of the poetry collections Among the Goddesses (Red Hen), Calendars (Tupelo), The Encyclopedia of Scotland (Salt), and her first book Eve, recently reissued in Carnegie Mellon’s Classic Contemporaries Poetry Series. Her numerous other works include libretti; music, art, and theater collaborations; and several influential poetry anthologies. She has translated the poetry of Louise Lab (University of Chicago Press) and written books on poetics, most recently The Body of Poetry, A Poet’s Ear, and A Poet’s Craft (all from University of Michigan Press). Finch has been featured in diverse venues including Voice of America, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NPR’s Writers’ Almanac, and Def Poetry Jam. She is a Fellow of the Black Earth Institute and was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Prize in 2009. Educated at Yale and Stanford, she is currently Professor of English and Director of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Southern Maine.

Advanced Praise

“In Calendars, Finch is more shaman than formalist. She is keenly aware of the shape and sound of her poems. Whether in a chant, sonnet, ghazal, or even Billy Collins’ contrived paradelle, her skill is effortless: Form is merely the skin that allows her poems to breathe with ease.” —Cindy Williams,CALYX

“… Annie Finch has never hesitated to buck a trend. An exacting technical critic in an age when most poetics is vague, a parsable formalist in an age when the strongest trends in poetry lead toward the free and the obscure, she is also a happy poet in an age (like most ages) when poets are bleak and blear.” —Tim Morris

“At the heart of Annie Finch lies a soul whose groundwork is tilled in the art of quietude, a ‘sincerity of the individual self, or soul.’ And it is this foundation that gives Finch not only an endearing quality but the credibility to represent the art in her essays….” —Michael Parker, MiPOesias

Calenders received a starred review from Publishers Weekly, and you can read it here

Web del Sol has published a review of Calendars.

Tad Richards reviewed Calendars in Jacket Magazine.

Format: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-932195-00-2