Finishing Line Press

A Vessel of Furious Resolve deals with the anguish life can throw at any of us and how we do our best to persevere-even triumph over it. The poems explore shame, abuse, death, family, courage, and...

Drawing on the works of Jack Spicer, Federico Garcia Lorca, Jacque Derrida, Donika Kelly, JG Ballard, Kieron Gillen & Jamie McKelvie, Deleuze & Guattari, Philip K. Dick, HP Lovecraft, David Lynch,...

Readers of Wild Rain will discover a poet of uncommon originality, sensitivity and talent. Margaret Rooney's unique connection to the natural world and her keen understanding of human possibility and...

Author: Mary K. O'MelvenyPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Sep 14, 2018Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163534672XISBN-13: 9781635346725

The poems in Work of Body: Body of Work slow down time and ask us to appreciate the artistry and magnitude of the smallest Work of Body such as a single breath or a spinal adjustment. As the poems...

A Zoo is a collection of poems, including the runner-up of the Emily Stauffer prize, ostensibly about animals. But the poems are much more than that, exploring loss, love, memory, depression, and why...

Amy-Sarah Marshall's debut collection, A-Drift, begins: "Of course, I was born in the ocean, at sea," a poem that celebrates the grandeur, mythic tumult, and whole-body acceptance of the sea. From...

Author: F. S. BlakePublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: November 01, 2019Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646620518ISBN-13: 9781646620517

Author: Francey Jo Grossman KennedyPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jul 13, 2020Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646622413ISBN-13: 9781646622412

Author: Shirley McPhillipsPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 25, 2016Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944899073ISBN-13: 9781944899073

This manuscript is a tinier proposal of intangible, at times hazy, though frequently metaphoric memories in linguistic frequency of interwoven patterns, shapes, and designs of Lana's ricochets...

Adding SaffronAuthor: William WelchPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: 45681Number of Pages: 102 pagesBinding: PoetryISBN-10: ISBN-13: 9798888388679

Affairs Run In The FamilyAuthor: Lee VaronPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2017Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635343453ISBN-13:...

Through the eyes of elephants, deer, human beings, turkeys, octopi, and other (perhaps unexpected) mortals, Affinity explores diverse, complex, and fragile interconnections that shape our lives on...

Author: Babo KamelPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jul 13, 2018Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635345847ISBN-13: 9781635345841

Author: Judith PrestPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 14, 2019Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635349273ISBN-13: 9781635349276

After EffectsAuthor: Judith JanooPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jan 25, 2019Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635348323ISBN-13: 9781635348323

Author: Louisa MunizPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 20, 2020Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 164662355XISBN-13: 9781646623556

After the Creek is a debut collection of poems that examines place, whether that be city, home, garden, or grave. McClintock employs varieties of tone and voice to interrogate the everyday.Author:...

Author: Katherine Flannery DeringPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 30, 2018Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635347963ISBN-13: 9781635347968

Author: Julia McConnellPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Sep 23, 2016Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635340225ISBN-13: 9781635340228

This book of poems is about acknowledgment. Acknowledgement is the acceptance of truth or existence of something. Acknowledgement is about indebtedness to others. This book recognizes that both...

This book of poems is about acknowledgment. Acknowledgement is the acceptance of truth or existence of something. Acknowledgement is about indebtedness to others. This book recognizes that both...

agriculture of grief: prayers for my father's dementia charts the gradual loss of a beloved parent to dementia. The poems here attempt to navigate multiple landscapes of mourning, multiple iterations...

Air-Breathing Life is a not only a field guide to the house sparrow, blue morpho butterfly, and salmon, but also to grief, Catholicism, redemption, and a search for meaning. As Ellen Bass says, the...

Airplane Graveyard retraces the path that brought us here, and questions the way forward. These poems work through the redefining of masculinity in our living era. What can we keep? What should we...

Airplane Graveyard retraces the path that brought us here, and questions the way forward. These poems work through the redefining of masculinity in our living era. What can we keep? What should we...

Author: Jill MceldowneyPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 14, 2018Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635348137ISBN-13: 9781635348132

Kris Whorton's Alchemy invites us into the world of stillness and movement, the personal and the physical, as she explores the body, family, and nature and the complex relationship between the...