The Critic’s Pen
Reviewed by Peggy Miller, Senior Editor, February 2007
“Here is a delightful find, an appealing combination of simple, dark and wise…”
These works are open-eyed to life’s tenderness and sadness—and the intersection of tenderness and sadness, which is the source of power in Finch’s writing.
A native Floridian, Finch was the recent writer in residence at Kerouac House in Orlando. Many Americans these days relocate often, but Finch lives in the midst of her history. In the poem “Hometown” she writes, “There are ghosts in the sanctuary,/ and our hometown is a place/ where we visit family/ alone/ on opposite ends of town.”
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Shady Lane Press is proud to present Red Wax Rose, stories and poems by Darlyn Finch, first in our Kerouac Writers series. This rare and wonderful series takes readers inside the minds of emerging writers, honing their craft in 3-month residencies at the house where Jack Kerouac wrote The Dharma Bums and where he was living when On The Road was published, thrusting him into the international spotlight.
It has been 50 years since Kerouac haunted the tin-roofed cottage in Orlando, Fla., pock-pocking away at the keys at all hours, filling a 150-foot teletype scroll in 11 days. But his legacy lives on in Finch and others, thanks to The Jack Kerouac Writers In Residence Project of Orlando, a nonprofit that saved the house from demolition and restored it to pristine condition in 1997.
We’re happy to see Darlyn’s work in print and excited about her being part of the Shady Lane family. Darlyn will be reading from Red Wax Rose tonight at the Jack Kerouac House. Locations and information on the Kerouac House and The Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando can be found here.
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Darlyn Finch is the Winter 2006/2007 writer-in-residence at the Kerouac House. A poet known for her saucy style and engaging readings, she is also a gifted storyteller. Her work has appeared in literary journals, newspapers, and online. Her poems have been featured on Poetic Logic on WMFE-FM. She is a repeat winner of the Mt. Dora Festival of Art and Literature; cultural liaison for the Society of American Travel Writers Institute; and the eponymous “Scribbler,” author of the Scribbles literary newsletter and sunscribbles.com. She holds an English degree from Rollins College and is pursuing her Master of Fine Arts at Spalding University.
Shady Lane Press, based in Orlando, Fla., is an independent, for-profit publisher of poetry, short stories, essays, memoir and creative non-fiction. Inspired by the work and legacy of Jack Kerouac, our goal is to discover and promote new and emerging voices.
