Caroline Finkelstein (born New York City, April, 1940, died Atlanta, February, 2016) was an American poet.
[1] Finkelstein was the second child of Louis and Rasha (Rae) Shapiro, clothing merchants in Manhattan.
As a girl, Finkelstein led what she calls “a bifurcated life, half American, half some idea of upper bourgeois European society....This upbringing maintains itself in many of my poems as mood, or attitude, or actual subject matter.”[2] She was married at nineteen to Jack Finkelstein, a pediatric neurologist.
at Goddard College, where she studied with Ellen Bryant Voigt, Robert Hass, and Michael Ryan.
It’s a rueful comment on my second marriage and an attempt at checking the longing that lives in my memories.