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.

Dear, Read (Ahsahta Press New Series, 3)

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Fishman, Lisa

Poetry

Ahsahta Press

Poetry. Fishman's work marries Wordsworthian country life to modern complexity in lyrics celebrating love, joy, birth, and wonder. "These lyrics carry the reader into a realm of immense, immediate, and surreal activity. THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT is a dream-version of what Whitman might have called a 'song of occupations.' Within Fishman's moving work of observation and recollection, the world of ordinary things seems itself to think, to mind itself; things gather, watch, prepare, betray, forget, explore, give names or keep silent. Throughout, the poet's mercurial intelligence is alert to the play of echo and the surprises of memory, in which the simplest verbs reveal their capacity to haunt. Her book's experiment is always linked to experience, its happiness to hap or chance"--Kenneth Gross.

The Happiness Experiment (The New Series, 18)

The Deep Heart's Core is a Suitcase (New Issues Press Poetry Series)

New Issues Poetry and Prose

World Naked Bike Ride

Gaspereau Pr

Poetry. Lisa Fishman's CURRENT follows THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT (Ahsahta Press, 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. "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.

Current (Free Verse Editions)

Parlor Press

Poetry. Taking its title from a sign outside the BART station in Oakland, California, FLOWER CART finds, makes, documents, pieces together, and steps out of the way of language at ground level. Being alive in acts of reading is writing in Fishman's fourth book, where the materiality of words, weather, plantlife, handwriting, and decay are engrafted in a hybrid ecology that is archival and lyric. The book's archival impulse lies in its attention to stray bodies of speech and text that Fishman does not alter but presents as interfused with her own sensibility (materially lyric), her location (rural Midwest), and the forms and rhythms of being here at this time that is more than one time.

Flower Cart

Lisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each otherwhether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic; singular or collective; alive or dead. The contradictions of lyric unfold, in this most unconventional elegy, by means of perception so steady it can change. 24 Pages and other poems extends backward and forward, with the presence of many, such as John Clare and Friederike Mayröcker, helping along the way.As if a corridorcould open or the EAR's two missingletters  h e a r t  e a r t h  whereveran animal pops out of the water such as a hooded merganserappeared to do a somersault diving under, not like a mallard more like a childor a ball  it didn't come upuntil it didLisa Fishman is the author of six books of poetry, including 24 Pages and other poems, F L O W E R C A R T, Current, and The Happiness Experiment. The first Lorine Niedecker Poet-in-Residence in Fort Atkinson and Blackhawk Island, Fishman lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

24 Pages and other poems (Wave Books)

Wave Books

Lisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each otherwhether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic; singular or collective; alive or dead. The contradictions of lyric unfold, in this most unconventional elegy, by means of perception so steady it can change. 24 Pages and other poems extends backward and forward, with the presence of many, such as John Clare and Friederike Mayröcker, helping along the way.
As if a corridor could open or the EAR's two missing letters h e a r t e a r t h wherever an animal pops out of the water such as a hooded merganser appeared to do a somersault diving under, not like a mallard more like a child or a ball it didn't come up until it did
Lisa Fishman is the author of six books of poetry, including 24 Pages and other poems, F L O W E R C A R T, Current, and The Happiness Experiment. The first Lorine Niedecker Poet-in-Residence in Fort Atkinson and Blackhawk Island, Fishman lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition

Spanning 16 years of notebooks, teaching notes, and improvisations, Lisa Fishman'sMad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition upends time itself in lyric, prose, and visual forms. Sharing Paul Klee's intuition that "the eye travels along the path cut out for it in the work," this deeply multifaceted book moves between observational directness and maddened speech, places and persons, humor and alarm. Tempted by Laura Riding's renunciation of poetry yet rich with life-forms of all kinds (vegetable, animal, processual), it is a work of immediate presence and continuous change, enacting an ever-renewing ecology of connection in peril.

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Books by Fishman, Lisa

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Dear, Read (Ahsahta Press New Series, 3)

The Happiness Experiment (The New Series, 18)

The Deep Heart's Core is a Suitcase (New Issues Press Poetry Series)

The Deep Heart's Core is a Suitcase (New Issues Press Poetry Series)

World Naked Bike Ride

Current (Free Verse Editions)

Flower Cart

24 Pages and other poems (Wave Books)

24 Pages and other poems (Wave Books)

Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition