Caroline Finkelstein

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Caroline Finkelstein
Born1940 (1940)
New York City
Died2016 (aged 75–76)
Atlanta, Georgia
Alma mater Goddard College
OccupationPoet
Relatives David I. Shapiro (brother)

Caroline Finkelstein (born New York City, April, 1940, died Atlanta, February, 2016) was an American poet. [1]

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Life

Finkelstein was the second child of Louis and Rasha (Rae) Shapiro, clothing merchants in Manhattan. Her brother, David I. Shapiro, became a noted Washington lawyer. As a girl, Finkelstein led what she calls “a bifurcated life, half American, half some idea of upper bourgeois European society....This upbringing maintains itself in many of my poems as mood, or attitude, or actual subject matter.” [2]

She was married at nineteen to Jack Finkelstein, a pediatric neurologist. They had three children: Adam, Gabriel, and Nicholas. She divorced in 1977 and later married the poet Robert Clinton, whom she also divorced.

Having dropped out of Barnard College after one term, she earned an M.F.A. at Goddard College, where she studied with Ellen Bryant Voigt, Robert Hass, and Michael Ryan. She was at Yaddo [3] and the MacDowell Colony.

Finkelstein grew up on Central Park West. After her marriage she moved to Philadelphia, then back to the Upper West Side, then to Fort Worth, Texas, then back to the Upper West Side, then to Millerton, New York. After her first divorce she lived in Middlesex, Vermont and Rochester, Massachusetts. In 1982, 2001, 2003 she lived in Westport, Massachusetts. [4] In 1999 and 2000, she lived in Florence and traveled around Italy.

In Vermont she became good friends with Donald Hall. She visited Jane Kenyon shortly before her death. [5]

She has published her work in Poetry , [6] The Gettysburg Review , [7] Fence , The Paris Review , [8] Seneca Review , [9] New American Writing , and The American Poetry Review . [10]

She last lived in Roswell, Georgia. [11]

Awards

Works

Poetry Books

Ploughshares

Quotes

About her poem "Conjecture Number One Thousand", Finkelstein wrote: “I wrote [the poem] while I was a fellow at the MacDowell Colony. It’s a rueful comment on my second marriage and an attempt at checking the longing that lives in my memories. The irony and occasional flippancy replicate much of the marriage’s shape. Being at MacDowell, where my former husband and I had once attended, only heightened the senses of loss and comedy within that loss.” [2]

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References

  1. ↑ "Finkelstein, Caroline". HighBeam.com. 2001-01-01. Archived from the original on 2012-11-05.
  2. 1 2 Lee, Don (2002-10-12). "Julie Orringer and Caroline Finkelstein, Cohen Awards". Ploughshares. Archived from the original on 2002-10-12. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  3. ↑ ftp://ftp.yaddo.org/Yaddo/writers.pdf%5B%5D
  4. ↑ "Contributors' Notes". Ploughshares. 2002-03-05. Archived from the original on 2002-03-05. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
  5. ↑ Hall, Donald (2006). The Best Day the Worst Day. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 253. ISBN   978-0-618-77362-6.
  6. ↑ Finkelstein, Caroline (May 1995). "Garden in the Field". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  7. ↑ "Winter 2004". The Gettysburg Review. Archived from the original on August 2, 2009.
  8. ↑ "Winter 1991". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on October 9, 2007.
  9. ↑ "Seneca Review | Back Issues". Hobart and William Smith Colleges. 2014-07-28. Archived from the original on 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2018-04-03.
  10. ↑ "Back Issues 00-04". The American Poetry Review. Archived from the original on January 1, 2009.
  11. ↑ "Caroline Finkelstein". Poets & Writers. June 9, 2008.
  12. ↑ "Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship- List of Past Recipients". amylowell.org. Retrieved 2018-03-13.
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