Lisa Fishman

Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition

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Produktbeschreibung

A wonderfully expansive collection of writings that capture daily practice and attention.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wave Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 180mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9781950268078
• ISBN-10: 1950268071
• Artikelnr.: 57129549

Autorenporträt

Lisa Fishman is the author of 24 Pages and other poems (Wave, 2015), F L O W E R C A R T (Ahsahta Press, 2011), Current (Parlor Press, 2011) and The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta, 2009). A North American writer (US and Canadian), Fishman is working on dividing her time between Wisconsin, where she currently lives, and somewhere across the border.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
I.
[Truth-telling is possible, thought Laura Riding . . .]
[not "using words"]
[the Five Ways to jump]
[Spring goes down]
[Michael says the poem will speak]
[Anyone says a few things . . .]
[How is every giant lunatic today? . . .]
[That walk up the hill . . .]
[Hill comes up]
[Each thing seen is upside down]
Night Skiing
[Full moon if I could see it]
[The March King has horse's ears]
[The Dawn Redwood's branches curve up]
Winter
Cilento
Swiftwriting
Swift 2
[You have a noon face . . .]
[There were broken birds . . .]
[I notice my heart . . .]
[Again no mother was]
[Sweet Go Go Lime]
Swift 3
Writing
Sorting
Storing
Pin Drop
Correction to Klee
"The sun's five hours slow"
[Letter One . . .]
[Claw eth the cold . . .]
Worksheet, March 2013
[GUITAR DRAW STAR]
[Gulls lifted over]
[A house has a cloud . . .]
[Being asked to write the sounds . . .]
[What is the outside process?]
Memory Exercise
[When 10 voices appear]
[transcription missing]
[Don't take apples from tortoise man?]
Scraps
The Fingers
[I rode the Red Line . . .]
[D. H. Lawrence wrote a letter.]
"While You Were Out" [#1]
[DonMee was talking . . .]
[I asterisk june . . .]
[Who was the? . . .]
What the Donkey Said
November 16 – December 1, 2016
["i've been looking for you . . ."]
[how far a person recedes]
II.
[Wherefore she changed her mind]
[da Vinci wrote, "If the sun is in the East . . ."]
[J is painting the birch stump . . .]
A dress for the carnival.
[With one person I've experienced . . .]
[The rest of the morning.]
Transcribed to be read aloud
[Compost – decay]
[they all add up to instructions]
[Rain at 4 a.m.]
[The sun appears to have gotten closer . . .]
[Clouds over Lake Michigan . . .]
Found
[James just observed . . .]
[Dandelion says]
da Vinci again
[day before yesterday]
[first night at the beekeeper's]
Transcribed from the Speech Accent Archive
[& drew that eye-shape with you in it]
[The palm of the hand is as square as a house]
[The shadow had a use]
[farm objects are]
"While You Were Out" [#2]
[We're still in]
[Seventh grade assignment sheet . . .]
Notes
[The child drew lines in a rounding curve . . .]
[And: the rhyme is a hand Bell-made . . .]
[An internal window divides . . .]
[Storm light: singular]
[Others could tell the difference . . .]
night day night
[Instructed to move the bees . . .]
[A word not sleeping]
[I could remember a small amount]
[airplane womb sound]
[All winter couldn't fit outside a book]
[Abbott Road]
where are the bees
[Catalogs are full of pictures]
[Beginning with a silver pencil . . .]
[On the Beara Peninsula]
[Completion an instant]
[Spotted Winged Drosophilia . . .]
[I would like some sea salt . . .]
[James is pounding copper]
[Have sent a point from out]
[Who will confess that]
[Misheard what and why]
[May ever any thing come in]
Mid-May to September
A note from my mother in the 70's
[The night is rustling . . .]
III.
Summer, 2015
IV.
"Preserving a Sand Mandala"
Orfordville, 2006
[Time does oscillate Aha]
[landscape]
[Each letter begins with the alphabet . . .]
[Extract what you were looking at . . .]
[The rest of the notebook appears to be . . .]
[When the wild onion floats on its back . . .]
[Many lines around the eyes]
[Observation of pattern . . .]
Transcriptions from unknown sources
[In Avoca, I said field]
[remember 2 days]
[Here a pen draws a line through . . .]
Salzburg translations
[I mean any position of the mouth is]
[Parody of 18thc Rationalism . . .]
[Inside, read what you wrote]
[The number 1 under the belly of the deer]
On the Beara Peninsula
V.
Deer 1
VI.
At the same time as scattering
VII.
[clara luna parce-que la jour]
[Can you carry this object]
Loose-leaf
teaching notes
Worksheet
winter and summer
"When the fog was all gone, Bear felt sad."
Sundial
The plums kept darkness as a net
[Yesterday was Wednesday?]
[Red start or Fire tail]
News paper Miracles Wonders Curiousitys & c & c
[FIRE HORSE SHOWS]
[How Animals Grieve]
November 1st, 2nd or 3rd
[A line through a forest]
[I have a Catherine]
[the beautiful idealism?]
[Unpredicted, snow fell]
[Language goes on General Strike]
[I observe Kellen walking in the middle . . .]
[Writing to see what can remember . . .]
["Snow taken from high peaks of mountains . . ."]
[Carnation in French . . .]
[As I was driving through Dolly's window]
Smash this
[Certain feet are large like boats . . .]
[Unicycle song structure]
May, 2004 – December, 2017
[Morning now, afterrain, owe 50]
[Everything's under the trainwhistle . . .]
[No form]
[Not making the bed not]
[Also the daily tumble]
VIII.
[process]
[We looked for rocks]
Alphabet in Oklahoma
[James goes to school, assigned to write]
Another OK ABC
[Oil the breadboards and don't remember]
Pedagogical Sketchbook, p. 47
[Page from a book on astronomy]
Discerned
[A nuthatch walked up the box elder]
[crankshaft pulley]
[bpN says "they covered each other with longing"]
[my name is lisa fiction . . .]
Spoon Fest
Postcard from Montréal
Acknowledgements