Current (Free Verse Editions) - Softcover

Fishman, Lisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1602352003 ISBN 13: 9781602352001

Publisher: Parlor Press, 2011

Synopsis

Lisa Fishman's CURRENT follows THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT (Ahsahta, 2007) further into an experience of time as theater, weather, myth, insect body, plantlife, transcription, synchrony, and figment. Her poems are pressed into argument and song by means of attention to the moment and to cross-currents of making, of music, over time. CURRENT enacts a poetics of the uncanny in very close touch with the actual, creating a field of vibrations in which the possibilities and limitations of vision and art collide and change. PRAISE FOR LISA FISHMAN'S WORK: "[H]er poems are consistently powerful in their close hewing to the physical world."-PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "Part of what makes Fishman's work so pleasurable to read is the feeling of pure motion in the sounds and images [. . .], at once angular and wild, precise and hurtling."-INDIANA REVIEW "Also implicit in Fishman's work is the idea that words are physical or material, that they come through sound from the body-are, in fact, part of the body."-HOW2 LISA FISHMAN lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin and teaches at Columbia College, Chicago. She is the author of three earlier books of poetry and most recently the chapbook, at the same time as scattering (Albion Books).

About this title

About the Author

Lisa Fishman's books include FLOWER CART (2011), THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT (2007), and DEAR, READ (2002), all from Ahsahta Press and CURRENT (Parlor Press, 2011). She teaches at Columbia College in Chicago and lives in Madison and Orfordville, Wisconsin.

Edition details

• Publisher: Parlor Press
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1602352003
• ISBN 13: 9781602352001
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 108