The Mussolini Diaries

Moving at surprising angles between the personal and the public world, Gary Fincke's poems lead to discoveries that are both exhilarating and unsettling. In long sequences and precisely observed shorter poems, he explores terrorism, mass hysteria, climate change, political calamity, and the necessity of sustaining belief. He references science and history as well as myth. He grounds his poems in experience. Gary Fincke's poems speak to the reader with an urgency driven by the elusiveness of...