Frail-craft / Jessica Fisher ; foreword by Louise Gluck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Jessica.

Series:

Yale series of younger poets ; v. 101.

Yale series of younger poets ; v. 101

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (89 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Jessica Fisher's Frail-Craft is winner of the 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and judge Louise Glück's fourth selection for the series. The book and the dream are the poet's primary objects of investigation here. Through deft, quietly authoritative lyrics, Fisher meditates on the problems and possibilities-the frail craft-of perception for the reader, the dreamer, maintaining that "if the eye can love-and it can, it does-then I held you and was held." In her foreword to the book, Louise Glück writes that Fisher's poetry is "haunting, elusive, luminous, its greatest mystery how plain-spoken it is. Sensory impressions, which usually serve as emblems of or connections to emotion, seem suddenly in this work a language of mind, their function neither metonymic nor dramatic. They are like the dye with which a scientist injects his specimen, to track some response or behavior. Fisher uses the sense this way, to observe how being is converted into thinking."

Contents:

Front matter

CONTENTS

FOREWORD

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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4

NOTES

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786611729004

9781281729002

1281729000

9780300138313

0300138318

OCLC:

290477493