Permanent Record & Other Poems

Poetry. From childhood to elegies and curmudgeonly rants, the poems in PERMANENT RECORD seek to explore what has remained memorable in Mark Vinz's life. As Roland Dille, former English professor and president of Moorhead State University, has aptly noted, "A Vinz poem almost always begins as a clearly observed piece of the real, even dull world. But it is soon transformed…and the vivid imagery has given us what Thom Tammaro has called 'fragments and glimpses of the truth.' The commonplace has grown complex."