Zinc Fingers
Poems from A to Z
By Peter Meinke
(University of Pittsburgh Press, Paperback, 9780822957249, 104pp.)
Publication Date: July 2000
Categories: American - General
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Description
Watching Steffi beat Monica on tv at Fat Jack's in Provincetown I was seized with an urge as I sometimes am to write a syllabic poem on the spot which was none too clean and packed to the gills with elbows and shrimp Hey Sparky I yelled to the bartender you got a pen? Sure he said knowing my propensities make it ten syllables a line Well why not I said but on the other hand why? Because look this is the tenth game of the third set Sparky said so I smoothed out the napkin while the crowd screamed You can do it! and wrote
Praise For Zinc Fingers…
“Meinke’s latest collection stands among his best, using a variety of forms from free verse to sonnet to villanelle and a wide range of tones from light to ‘first person jugular,’ to use Meinke’s own phrase.”
“In the best of Meinke’s work his impressive skills yield poems of scope and extraordinary power. . . . His greatest gift may be his ability ot shed enormous light through small windows. . . . Most of us can mulch and most of us can muse, but only a genuine poet can forge that lightning connection between such things over and over again.”
--Tampa Times
“Thank God for Peter Meinke’s voice of literary sanity, for these poems of a lovable, beleaguered man trying to make sense of a difficult world. <I>Zinc Fingers</I> is a delight from beginning to end.”
--Edward Field
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