Mike Finley, Writer

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EVERYBODY SAY YEAH! A Meditation on the Search for Justice - 2019

AMHERST, OHIO, My Life in a Small Town - 2019

"Any one who grew up in Amherst, Ohio should read this. Brilliantly written. If you are an ex-Catholic, it is eye opening." - Stephany Larson

This is my life's work, all on one page. I have been using Issuu.com as a gallery, but it's $22/mo., and I don't want my family to have to deal with that expense after I am gone. You know -- gone.

So I moved it all to my own website, which is only $20 a year. Hopefully, Rachel will keep this up for a few years, at least until I win some posthumous award for terrible career planning. (I could have sent these books to regular publishers, but I chose to bet on the Internet instead.)

COLLECTIONS

INSTRUCTIONS FOR FALLING - 2018

DON'T BE LIKE THE MOON - 2015

YUKON GOLD, Poemes de terre, Collected Poems 1971-2009

A THOUSAND DAYS - 2009

THE GREAT BIG BOOK OF FINLEY - 2016

LIEF MAGAZINE

An experimental -- very visual -- magazine Klecko and I edited for three years.

LIEF 1 - The Lamb

LIEF 2 - The Starfish

LIEF 3 - The Elephant

LIEF 4 - The Duck

BOOKS

89 OBJECTS OF HAPPINESS ARRAYED IN ASCENDING ORDER - 2018

FATHER DAYS - 1995

AMHERST, OHIO, My Life in a Small Town - 2019

FREAKS, A Memoir of the 60s - 2019

ODDFATHERS, A Writer's Role Models - 2013

WHEN POETRY PAID: The Boom Years of American Verse - 2017

TAKE ME OUT OF THE BALL GAME - 1988

COUVADE AND THE CLOUD OF UNKNOWING - 1985

WITH KLECKO

A POX ON ALL YOUR BLESSINGS, with Danny Klecko - 2014

ROBERT BLY AND THE MONK IN HIS CELL AND LAST TRIP TO CLEVELAND, with Danny Klecko - 2015

THE BLUEBEARD OF HAPPINESS, with Danny Klecko - 2014

OUT FOR A LARK, with Danny Klecko, 2010

REPRINTS

THE WOMAN I LOVE - 1982

THE MOVIE UNDER THE BLINDFOLD - 1978

THE BEAGLES OF ARKANSAS - 1976

DEATH | HELL | SANTA CLAUS - 1991

CURBSIDE - 1999

HOME TREES - 1976

NOVELS & STORIES

The Clever & The Good, aka, The Usual Book - 1979

Wisdom of the Solomons aka, The Megapode - 1981

ALBRECHT THE NOT ALTOGETHER PLEASANT LITTLE MOUSE, children's story - 1989

SHOOK FOIL - 1999

THE DOG INTERNET - 1997

TRADE TITLES

Why Teams Don't Work, winner, Best Business Book, The Americas, 1996

Why Change Doesn't Work - 1997

Techno-Crazed - 1996

Transcompetition - 2000

The Accidental Leader - 2002

GHOST TITLES

Personal Injury, for Norm Perl, 2010

CHAPBOOKS

GOODBYE, Last Poems - 2019

VICTORY THROUGH SONG - 2015

MY HAND ON YOUR KNEE - 2017

THE RAPTURE - 2015

THE MAN WHO DIDN'T GET IT - 2017

LOGICALLY THE CATERPILLAR - 2017

THE SUGAR TRAP - 1984

OVERLOOKING THE TEMPERANCE - 2009

FISH NAKED - 2017

THE NEW YORKER - 1990

WHY HORSES RUN BACK INTO BURNING BARNS - 2017

THE WAY OF MEN - 2017

NAMEDROPPINGS - 1980

UNDER THE WONDERFUL - 2018

SKIBBEREEN - 2010

BEE ON THE MOON - 2017

POETS RUIN EVERYTHING - 2011

HEART BREAK - 2017

THE UNDERPANTS SERIES - 2017

A SOLUTION FOR AMERICA - 2016

COLOSSUS - 2016

THE RIVER AT VARNASI - 2016

OUR PLACE IN THE FOOD CHAIN - 2015

THE PROBLEM OF CONSCIOUSNESS - 2017

LET'S GET LOST IN THE FOREST - 2015

FROWNING WOMAN ON BUS BENCH - 2015

THE JACOB'S HILL RECOMMUNION - 1980

THE LUCY POEMS - 2015

EMISSARY - 2015

MEET ME AT GIANT WASH - 1981

POEMS OF MIGHT - 2015

FECKLESS LOVE - 2015

MY HAND ON YOUR KNEE - 2018

A DEMON LIVES INSIDE ME - 2014

DESALINIZATION - 2010

SUMACS - 2013

MOAB - 2007

CMON GET HAPPY! - 2010

FRIPPERIES - 2013

HIDDEN FALLS - 2015

MANIFEST - 2015

HOUSE OF MURK - 1989

CURTIS HOTEL FAREWELL - 1990

MIDNIGHT AT THE MOUNDS - 2004

RIMES FOR HARD TIMES - 2010

MYSTERY GIRL - 2010

CARTES POSTALES - 2010

FECES, And Other Concerns of the Young - 2005

THE POET VOZNESENSKI - 2015

THE BLUE BICYCLE - 2011

DEAD CAT - 1994

THE BIOLUMINESCENT WOMAN -- 2012



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