Stations of the Sun: Poems

From Roger Finch's long experience of living in Japan and traveling widely in the Far East, Europe, and other countries come the settings and themes of many of these poems dealing with love, friendship, encounters with strangers, discovery, loss, and death, while others focus on memories of the past, separation, and longing for his homeland. The prosodic base of most of these poems is inspired by Japanese, Korean, Thai, and Quechua poetry. Praise for Stations of the Sun: "Color, light, nature, and art in Roger Finch's poems radiate an experience of miraculous attentiveness to the power of desire and memory. Deftly musical, the poems of Stations of the Sun find loss and hope intertwined in affirmation, as time and changing flesh become precise and eloquent words." - James Hatch, Ph.D., Hunter College