Episode 7: Norman Finkelstein

In this episode conference director Matthew Biberman talked with the noted poet and critic Norman Finkelstein who has been regularly attending LCLC conferences since 1982. The author of thirteen books of poetry including his New and Selected collection entitled the Ratio of Reason to Magic as well as the forthcoming Thirty-Six/Two Lives coauthored with the poet Tirzah Goldenberg. His critical work includes On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred In Contemporary American Poetry (University of Iowa Press, 2010) and Like a Dark Rabbi: Modern Poetry & the Jewish Literary Imagination (Hebrew Union College Press, 2019). He writes and edits the poetry review blog Restless Messengers (www.poetryinreview.com). This discussion is ideal for fans of contemporary poetry and poetics (especially Nathanial Mackey, W. S. Merwin and the objectivists with a Colson Whitehead cameo) as well as Jewish studies.