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Don't Do It, We Love You, My Heart

By (author) Jonathan Fink

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â€œFinkâ€™s a better guide than Dante had through our hells and heavens.â€ â€“ Mary Karr, author of The Liarsâ€™ Club and Lit In a wide range of lyrically rich poems, award-winning poet Jonathan Fink interrogates the perpetual mysteries and resonances at the convergence of national identity, historical influence, and personal experience. In Donâ€™t Do Itâ€”We Love You, My Heart, Jonathan Fink interweaves a welcome range of poetic styles including expansive, narrative poems, shorter, lyrical poems, and intricate one-sentence poems that are sustained over multiple pages to deliver his most intimate collection to date. Charting changing national and personal landscapes, Finkâ€™s writing explores such diverse subjects as growing up in West Texas at the conclusion of the Cold War; ekphrastic poems about the paintings of Goya, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum art theft; the intuitive language he shares with his infant daughter on a quiet evening before she falls asleep; and the famous story of a suicide prevented on the George Washington Bridgeâ€”the jumper stayed by the man who tells him, â€œDonâ€™t do itâ€“we love you, my heart.â€ The imperative, urgent compassion conveyed in the strangerâ€™s command thrums through all the poems in this collection, compelling the reader outward to deeper connections and lived empathy.