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Annie Finch

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  • Annie Finch

  • 53 / Female
  • Maine, US
  • Last Login: 2/6/2010

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Interests

  • General

    Poetry, the wheel of the year, shamanism, poetry, mermaids, herb gardens, poetry, the Ring of Minos in Heraklion, hiking, Goddess traditions, generator crystals, poetry.

  • Music

    The Body Acoustic by Cyndi Lauper. Opera by Maria Callas. Bob Dylan. Gorecki. Supremes. Composers who've set my poems so beautifully to music: Stefania deKenessey, Bruce Rockwell.

  • Movies

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOa-eBx3GVw

    Julie Finch reads poems by Annie Finch

    My sister, actress Julie Finch, reads three of my poems—"Perdita's Song," "The Native American Birds," and "Revelry"—at a reading-presentation of the first issue of Ars Interpres recorded in New York at Cornelia Street Cafe in 2005..
    Water by Deepa Mehta, Spring Summer Fall Winter,

  • Books

    When God Was a Woman by Merlin Stone, The Gift by Lewis Hyde, and The Untouched Key by Alice Miller. Poetry by a thousand poets, e.g. Helen Adam, Agha Shahid Ali, Hart Crane, Odysseus Elytis, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, George Herbert, John Keats, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Frank O'Hara, William Butler Yeats.

  • Heroes

    Pablo Neruda, Sonia Sanchez, Langston Hughes, Queen Elizabeth I, Edmund Spenser, Boadicea, Changing Woman, Quan Yin, Gaia, my children, my mother, my husband, my cat.

Blurbs

About me:

Uniting all of Annie Finch’s poetry, as well as her musical collaborations, editing, translation, and criticism, is a conception of poetry as physical: rooted deeply in its traditions across centuries and cultures, and at the same time grounded in the present, incantatory, performative, speaking to the body as much as to the mind. The forms of her poems, subtly wrought and compelling, build on rhythms and shapes from numerous cultures; the themes of many of her poems draw on a deep connection to nature and spirit. "Finch focuses on the cyclical and seasonal, centering on themes of birth, death, family and artistic lineage, sexuality and female spirituality. . . Finch almost always draws one in with an unnerving and utterly unexpected phrase or image." —Publishers Weekly "Annie Finch understands better than any contemporary I know what poetry feels like and sounds like when it is completely at home in its traditions. . . .. Her book Calendars is the work of a major poet, one of very few who understand how lyric lives in part because it can speak for something larger than the ego." —Charles Altieri, University of California, Berkeley

Who I'd like to meet:

People who love what they do.

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