Background
Finch, Annie Ridley Crane was born on October 31, 1956 in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Daughter of Henry Leroy and Margaret (Rockwell) Finch.
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The Body of Poetry collects essays, reviews, and memoir by Annie Finch, one of the brightest poet-critics of her generation. Finch's germinal work on the art of verse has earned her the admiration of a wide range of poets, from new formalists to hip-hop writers. And her ongoing commitment to women's poetry has brought Finch a substantial following as a "postmodern poetess" whose critical writing embraces the past while establishing bold new traditions. The Body of Poetry includes essays on metrical diversity, poetry and music, the place of women poets in the canon, and on poets Emily Dickinson, Phillis Wheatley, Sara Teasdale, Audre Lorde, Marilyn Hacker, and John Peck, among other topics. In Annie Finch's own words, these essays were all written with one aim: "to build a safe space for my own poetry. . . . In the attempt, they will also have helped to nourish a new kind of American poetics, one that will prove increasingly open to poetry's heart." Poet, translator, and critic Annie Finch is director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. She is co-editor, with Kathrine Varnes, of An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art, and author of The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, Eve, and Calendars. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification.
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The Encyclopedia of Scotland is a unique book, an early experimental poem by a poet who has since gained national recognition in the United States and the UK. It abounds with word-play and musical rhythm.
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At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tastes and wisdom of poets, An Exaltation of Forms is an indispensable resource certain to find a dedicated audience among poetry lovers. The editors invited over fifty contemporary poets to select a poetic meter, stanza, or form, describe it, recount its history, and provide favorite examples. The essays represent a remarkably diverse range of literary styles and approaches, and show how the forms of contemporary English-language poetry derive from a wealth of different traditions. The forms range from hendecasyllabics to prose poetry, haiku to procedural poetry, sonnets to blues, rap to fractal verse. The range of poets included is equally impressive--from Amiri Baraka to John Frederick Nims, from Maxine Kumin to Marilyn Hacker, from Agha Shahid Ali to Pat Mora, from W. D. Snodgrass to Charles Bernstein. Achieving this level of eclecticism is a remarkable feat, especially given the strong opinions held by members of the various camps (e.g., the New Formalists, LANGUAGE poets, feminist and multicultural poets) that exist within today's poetry community. Poets who might never occupy the same room here occupy the same pages, perhaps for the first time. The net effect is a book that will surprise, inform, and delight a wide range of readers, whether as reference book, pleasure reading, or classroom text. Poet, translator, and critic Annie Finch is director of the Stonecoast low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine. She is author of The Ghost of Meter: Culture and Prosody in American Free Verse, Eve, and Calendars. She is the winner of the eleventh annual Robert Fitzgerald Prosody Award for scholars who have made a lasting contribution to the art and science of versification. Kathrine Varnes teaches English at the University of Missouri-Columbia. She is the author of the book of poems, The Paragon. Her poems and essays have appeared in many books and journals.
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Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the "haiku" to rap music--and trace their history
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A groundbreaking study of the connections among meter, the poetic unconscious, and wider literary and cultural forces
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Finch, Annie Ridley Crane was born on October 31, 1956 in New Rochelle, New York, United States. Daughter of Henry Leroy and Margaret (Rockwell) Finch.
Bachelor, Yale University, 1979. Master of Arts, University Houston, 1986. Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1991.
Lecturer New College, San Francisco, 1991. Assistant professor University Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, 1992-1995, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, 1995-1998, associate professor, 1999—2004. Director, Stonecoast Master of Fine Arts in creative writing University Southern Maine, since 2004, professor, since 2006.
( At once handbook, reader, and guide to the literary tas...)
(The Encyclopedia of Scotland is a unique book, an early e...)
( The Body of Poetry collects essays, reviews, and memoir...)
( A groundbreaking study of the connections among meter, ...)
(Fifty poets examine the architecture of poems--from the "...)
Member Modern Language Association, Academy American Poets, Poetry Society of America.
Married Glen Brand, December 6, 1985. Children: Julian Hughan Finch-Brand, Althea Margaret Crane Finch-Brand.