Current

Lisa Fishman

Description

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.

Informations

• Publié par: Parlor Press, LLC
• Date de parution: 27 janvier 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781602352018
• Langue: English

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Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson

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Fîsman, Lîsa, 1966- Current / Lîsa Fîsman.  p. cm. -- (Free verse edîtîons) ïSBN 978-1-60235-200-1 (pbk. : ak. paper) -- ïSBN 978-1-60235- 201-8 (adobe ebk.) ï. Tîte. PS3556.ï814572C87 2011 811’.54--dc22  2011001728

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Contents

Acknowedgments vîî Lining 3 vîbratîon o te wînd 5 trow CAUTïON 7 ïn beîng expaîned te musîc o te speres 8 here was RETAïL 9 ï admîre te dayîîes because tey are ta 11 Waves ove te traic goîng by 12 Because te water carrîes voîces 13 he room îs ar too brîgt or me to see you în 14 Questions about snakes 15 A pencî can be sarpened down înInîtey 17 he boy dîd te were te stars e 19 Questîons about snakes were you dreamîng 20 Here yeow mouse 21 here were a ew sentences but tey dîd not cross 22 Very oud wînd în te popars 23 he reason seep îs împortant to poetry 24 Sît down wît me, a person saîd 25 ï mean ï remember te red seets 26 Not reay 27 ïn te unar ouse ît wî be obvîous 28 Set ît down 29 ïnsects are în sectîons 31 here îs a coor but not tat coor 32 And tîs îs sexua te roo o te mout 33 tîs, tîs, tîs 34

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Fastenîng 35 Steep anges come to mînd, î you were askîng 36 “he Holy Spirit does not deal in synonimes” 39

All winter couldn’t fit outside a book 83 By turns you may be someone ese 85 Beîngîncommon as notîng to do 86 One tînks to provoke anoter înto tougt 87 Henry, James, Brîan, Rîcard, Gen and ï 88 And were te goden appes o te sun 89 he snow came rom te sky 90 ïn te beautîu 91 ony Acts & ïs, în exîstîng beîngs or Men 92 But anoter one saîd: Mînd you, to see ît îke tat 93 Mîgt be 94

About te Autor 97 Free Verse Edîtîons 99

Acknowledgments

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he sectîon caed “Lînîng” was pubîsed as a capbook by Boxwood Edîtîons (Cîcago, 2009); tanks to Josua Marîe Wîkînson and Lîy Brown. Portîons o ît Irst appeared înhe Laurel Revîew (Maryvîe, MO) andMarymagazîne (Moraga, CA). Portîons o te sectîon “Questîons about snakes” ave been pubîsed înColumbîa Poetry Revîew (Cîcago) andUpstaîrs at Duroc(Parîs). “Te Hoy Spîrît does not dea în synonîmes” was pubîsed as a capbook by Parce Press (Denver, 2007) and a portîon o te work îrst appeared înParcelmagazîne; ï tank Andrea Rexîîus. Tanks aso to Andrew Kade and Set Kasten, dîrectors, respec- tîvey, o te Burke Lîbrary at Unîon Teoogîca Semînary în New York Cîty, wo învîted me to study Barrett Brownîng’s Bî- bes and transcrîbe er margînaîa în 1997-98 and agaîn în 2007. ït was epu to present a scoary paper on tîs materîa at te “Autor as Reader” Conerence at Unîversîty o Sazburg, 2003. Portîons o te sectîon “A wînter coudn’t ît outsîde a book” ave been pubîsed înTalîsman(Jersey Cîty) andSawbuck(on- îne). Te îrst poem în tat sectîon (“Beîngînas common notîng to do . . .”) îs made o notes by Kaoru Yamamoto rom er ecture on Josep Conrad at Vaxjö Unîversîty, Sweden, 2008. Te poems begînnîng, “Ony Acts & ïs” and “But anoter one saîd” contaîn materîa rom Vîncent Van Gog’sLetters.

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