WHO IS ANNIE FINCH ?
I came to know Annie Finch when I happened to
be working on the Contemporary American Poets
Anthology. A friend of mine who was in the habit
of introducing her good friends as good American
poets who only turned out to be either bad or
minor bards later, thought of introducing her
to me. So when I initiated correspondence with
Annie Finch in order to have some of her poems
sent to me, deep down in my heart I had not the
slightest tinge of hope to catch a big and good
enough fish for my anthology. And of course, everyone
is aware that one cannot possibly trust the authenticity
of the internet When you make a trip through the
history and identity of any poet these days,
ABOUT INTERVIEWER
Farideh Hassanzadeh (Mostafavi)
is an Iranian poet, translator and freelance journalist.
Her first book of poetry was published when she
was twenty-two.
Her poems appear in the anthologies Contemporary
Women Poets of Iran and Anthology of Best Women
Poets. She writes regularly for Golestaneh, Iran
News, Jamejam and many literary magazines. Her
anthology Contemporary American Poetry will appear
in 2007. She is the author of The Last Night with
Sylvia Plath: Essays
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