Dear, Read (Ahsahta Press New Series, 3) - Softcover

Fishman, Lisa

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9780916272739: Dear, Read (Ahsahta Press New Series, 3)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0916272737 ISBN 13: 9780916272739
Publisher: Ahsahta Press, 2002

Synopsis

Poetry. "Lisa Fishman writes with an impeccable sense of cadence, of words as sounds too, of physical fact becoming thought and then recurring as poetry" - Robert Creeley. "These spare, delicately packed lyrics call up the traditions of Dickinson, Niedecker, and Riding, and join the varieties of women's experimental writing of the last two decades" - Brenda Hillman. "Fishman's poems, elliptical, spiraling, sound the mystery of ordinary things, a torn screen door.to test the undisclosed meanings of both language and landscape" - Michael Palmer.

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About the Author

Lisa Fishman farms in southern Wisconsin with her husband and has taught at Beloit College since 1998. Her poems have appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Colorado Review, Indefinite Space, Elixir, and other magazines.

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Citizen Lyric

A my name is Alice

my dad sang

in the streets of the city

before the city

spoke French solely

We bounced a red ball, three angles

between us, in time to the chant

You had to keep the song going

through the alphabet, filled in

differently each time

though A was always Alice

so you had 26 names in the father's song

Copyright © 2002 Lisa Fishman

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Publisher
Ahsahta Press
Publication date
2002
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0916272737
ISBN 13 
9780916272739
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
102
Rating
  • 4.42 out of 5 stars
    33 ratings by Goodreads