Current

by Lisa Fishman

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602357297
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	01/27/2011
Series:	Free Verse Editions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	108
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Lisa Fishman lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin and teaches at Columbia College, Chicago. By the terms of Canada’s amended Citizenship Act of 2009, Fishman, whose paternal family is from Montréal, has Canadian citizenship pending. She is the author of three earlier collections of poetry: The Happiness Experiment (Ahsahta Press, 2007); Dear, Read (Ahsahta, 2002); The Deep Heart’s Core Is a Suitcase (New Issues Press, 1996) and most recently the chapbook, at the same time as scattering (Albion Books, 2010). In Orfordville, she lives on a farm and orchard she and her husband, Henry Morren, started in 1998; in Madison, they live with the poet Richard Meier near the Yahara River. She has a six-year-old son, James Fishman-Morren.