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 Annie Finch is the author or editor of fifteen books of poetry, translation, and criticism. Her books of poetry include Eve, Calendars, The Encyclopedia of Scotland, The Complete Poems of Louise Labé, and the forthcoming Among the Goddesses: A Narrative Libretto.
Her music, art, and theater collaborations include two operas. Her
poems appear in anthologies, textbooks, and journals including Agni, Court Green, Fulcrum, Kenyon Review, Jacket, Paris Review, Prairie Schooner, and Yale Review, and her books on poetics include A Formal Feeling Comes, An Exaltation of Forms, The Ghost of Meter, The Body of Poetry, and the forthcoming A Poet’s Craft. Her book of poetry Calendars
was shortlisted for the Foreword Poetry Book of the Year Award and in
2009 she was awarded the Robert Fitzgerald Award. She has performed her
poetry across the U.S. and in England, France, Greece, Ireland, and
Spain. Finch earned a BA from Yale University, MA in Creative Writing
from the University of Houston, and PhD in English from Stanford
University. She lives in Maine where she directs Stonecoast, the
low-residency MFA program at the University of Southern Maine.
Books of Poetry |
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Among the
Goddesses: A Narrative Libretto.
Red Hen Press, forthcoming.
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Calendars. Manchester, VT: Tupelo Press, 2003. [Shortlisted, Foreword Poetry Book of
the Year Award for 2003]
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Eve. Brownsville, OR:
Story Line Press, 1997.
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The Encyclopedia of Scotland. Caribou Press, 1982; Cambridge: Salt Publishing. 2005. |
Chapbooks and Limited Editions |
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Shadow-Bird. Dusie Kollektiv / Good
Utopian Books, 2009.
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Annie Finch’s Greatest Hits. Pudding House Press, 2007.
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Home-Birth. Dos Madres Press, 2004.
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Season Poems. Calliope Press, 2002.
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Catching the Mermother. Aralia Press, 1996. |
Poetry Translation |
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The Complete Poetry and Prose of Louise Labé: A Bilingual Edition. Edited with
Critical Introductions and Prose Translations by Deborah Lesko Baker and Poetry
Translations by Annie Finch.
Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 2006. Honorable
Mention for a translation published in 2006 in the field of women’s studies,
Society for the Study of Early Modern Women. |
Books About Poetry |
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A Poet’s Craft: The Making and Shaping of Poems. Forthcoming. University of
Michigan Press, 2010.
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A Poet’s Ear:
A Handbook of Meter and Form. Forthcoming. University of Michigan Press, 2010.
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The Body of
Poetry:
Essays on Women, Form, and
the Poetic Self. Poets on Poetry Series, University
of Michigan Press, 2005.
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The Ghost of
Meter:
Culture and Prosody in
American Free Verse. University of Michigan
Press, 1993. Paperback edition with new preface, 2001. |
Edited Books |
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Multiformalisms: Postmodern Poetics of Form. Coeditor with Susan Schultz. Wordtech Editions, 2008.
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Lofty Dogmas: Poets on Poetics. Coeditor with Maxine Kumin and Deborah Brown. University of Arkansas Press, 2005.
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An Exaltation of Forms: Contemporary Poets Celebrate the Diversity of Their Art. With Katherine Varnes. University of Michigan Press, 2002.
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Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life and Work. Coeditor with Johanna Keller and Candace McClelland. CavanKerry Press, 2000.
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After New Formalism: Poets on Form, Narrative, and Tradition. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1999.
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A Formal Feeling Comes: Poems in Form by Contemporary Women. Brownsville, OR: Story Line Press, 1994. Reissued by Wordtech Editions, 2007. |
What Others Say
"Annie Finch is an American original, a master of control who shows no fear of excess, and none of quietness either. Calendars is a marvelous book, filled with poems whose directness and simplicity are deceptive — they have depths and delights that appear to go on forever. We haven't had a poet so capable of combining control & excess since the young Robert Duncan."
—Ron Silliman
"I feel I know why Finch is so firmly a formalist; she is a little mad, and the forms help contain the madness. I'd give a great deal to have more of that madness myself."
—Carolyn Kizer
"Annie Finch has made form a one-eyed monster looking out at us all, beckoning us to enter into her arena and be."
—Sonia Sanchez
"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. . . 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
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