What manner of beast: Poems

Poet Donald Finkel was born in New York City on October 21, 1929. He received a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1952 and a master's degree in English in 1953 from Columbia University. He taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, Bard College, and Washington University. He wrote numerous books of poetry including The Garbage Wars (1970), A Mote in show more Heaven's Eye (1975), Going Under (1978), and Not So the Chairs: Selected and New Poems (2003). He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on November 15, 2008 at the age of 79. (Bowker Author Biography) show less