Or Current Resident: poems
Thomas Fink delivers a linguistic treasure trove full of unbridled humor and subtle social commentary in poems with intricate visual configurations. The book features a long catalogue-poem of outrageous job-titles, additions to such longstanding series as “ Yinglish Strophes,” “ Goad,” and “ Trojan Panopticon,” and two new series, “ Mission Statement” and “ Terse Rhymes.”
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Or Current Resident: poems
Thomas Fink delivers a linguistic treasure trove full of unbridled humor and subtle social commentary in poems with intricate visual configurations. The book features a long catalogue-poem of outrageous job-titles, additions to such longstanding series as “ Yinglish Strophes,” “ Goad,” and “ Trojan Panopticon,” and two new series, “ Mission Statement” and “ Terse Rhymes.”
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Or Current Resident: poems

Or Current Resident: poems

by Thomas Fink
Or Current Resident: poems

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Overview

Thomas Fink delivers a linguistic treasure trove full of unbridled humor and subtle social commentary in poems with intricate visual configurations. The book features a long catalogue-poem of outrageous job-titles, additions to such longstanding series as “ Yinglish Strophes,” “ Goad,” and “ Trojan Panopticon,” and two new series, “ Mission Statement” and “ Terse Rhymes.”

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9798990249004
Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
Publication date: 11/01/2025
Pages: 94
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.20(d)

About the Author

Thomas Fink (born 1954) is a poet and literary critic. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, two books of criticism, and a literature anthology, and he has co-edited two critical anthologies. He was featured in the 2007 edition of Scribner’ s The Best American Poetry. Fink is a professor of English at City University of New York— LaGuardia.

Table of Contents

Mission Statement 1

Mission Statement 2

Mission Statement 3

Mission Statement 4

Mission Statement 5

Mission Statement 6

CEO Collides with Brute Paradox

Bumpy Singalong

Cold Calling

“ You Get What You Pay For”

A Brief Survey

Dream Job Postings

Gentle Reminder

Remain Seated.

Bureau

Affront to Center and Circumference

Trend Spin

Hidden in Plain Site

Loss

The Café Drugs

Dogged

Vexation Zone

Memory Tactics

Sartorial Ideologies

Hasty Obit

Yinglish Strophes 31

Yinglish Strophes 32

Yinglish Strophes 33

Yinglish Strophes 34

Yinglish Strophes 35

Yinglish Strophes 36

The Extras

In a Luminous

Transitional Objects

Cage Sings

Goad 27

Goad 28

Goad 29

Goad 30

Goad 31

Goad 32

Anonymous Apostrophe

Proximity

Terse Rhymes 1

Terse Rhymes 2

Terse Rhymes 3

Terse Rhymes 4

Terse Rhymes 5

Terse Rhymes 6

Terse Rhymes 7

Terse Rhymes 8

Terse Rhymes 9

Terse Rhymes 10

Terse Rhymes 11

Rain

Dusk Bowl Intimacies 38

Dusk Bowl Intimacies 39

Some Eyes

Bone Television

Jigsaw Hubbub 24

Jigsaw Hubbub 25

Jigsaw Hubbub 26

Reverse Monobon

Hard Copy

Threatless

Discernment

Galvanizing Jumble

Trojan Panopticon 6

Trojan Panopticon 7

Trojan Panopticon 8

Trojan Panopticon 9

Artificial Stupefaction

Acknowledgments

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