Spanning 16 years of notebooks, teaching notes, and improvisations, Lisa Fishman's
Mad 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 echoic resonance, 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.
About the AuthorLisa 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.
Book InformationISBN 9781950268078
Author Lisa FishmanFormat Hardback
Page Count 208
Imprint Wave BooksPublisher Wave Books