Or Current Resident poems

Thomas Fink delivers a linguistic treasure trove full of unbridled humor and subtle social commentary in poems with intricate visual configurations. The book features a long catalogue-poem of outrageous job-titles, additions to such longstanding series as “ Yinglish Strophes,” “ Goad,” and “ Trojan Panopticon,” and two new series, “ Mission Statement” and “ Terse Rhymes.”

Thomas Fink (born 1954) is a poet and literary critic. He is the author of eleven books of poetry, two books of criticism, and a literature anthology, and he has co-edited two critical anthologies. He was featured in the 2007 edition of Scribner’ s The Best American Poetry. Fink is a professor of English at City University of New York— LaGuardia.

Mission Statement 1 Mission Statement 2 Mission Statement 3 Mission Statement 4 Mission Statement 5 Mission Statement 6 CEO Collides with Brute Paradox Bumpy Singalong Cold Calling “ You Get What You Pay For” A Brief Survey Dream Job Postings Gentle Reminder Remain Seated. Bureau Affront to Center and Circumference Trend Spin Hidden in Plain Site Loss The Café Drugs Dogged Vexation Zone Memory Tactics Sartorial Ideologies Hasty Obit Yinglish Strophes 31 Yinglish Strophes 32 Yinglish Strophes 33 Yinglish Strophes 34 Yinglish Strophes 35 Yinglish Strophes 36 The Extras In a Luminous Transitional Objects Cage Sings Goad 27 Goad 28 Goad 29 Goad 30 Goad 31 Goad 32 Anonymous Apostrophe Proximity Terse Rhymes 1 Terse Rhymes 2 Terse Rhymes 3 Terse Rhymes 4 Terse Rhymes 5 Terse Rhymes 6 Terse Rhymes 7 Terse Rhymes 8 Terse Rhymes 9 Terse Rhymes 10 Terse Rhymes 11 Rain Dusk Bowl Intimacies 38 Dusk Bowl Intimacies 39 Some Eyes Bone Television Jigsaw Hubbub 24 Jigsaw Hubbub 25 Jigsaw Hubbub 26 Reverse Monobon Hard Copy Threatless Discernment Galvanizing Jumble Trojan Panopticon 6 Trojan Panopticon 7 Trojan Panopticon 8 Trojan Panopticon 9 Artificial Stupefaction Acknowledgments