No chronology / Karen Fish.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fish, Karen, 1959- author.

Series:

Phoenix Poets

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Winter--Poetry.

Winter.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (78 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois : University of Chicago Press, [2021]

Summary:

In No Chronology, Karen Fish's third collection of poems, she investigates those moments when the boundary of everyday life merges with history, imagination, and art. Fish was trained as a visual artist, and this way of seeing is intrinsic to her approach to poetry. Fish's reflections on art and life speak to our common experiences, and her power to illuminate the subtle complexities of the world around us lies in her keen and compassionate observations. These poems invite us to join her in looking both at and beyond ourselves. The outside world vanishes. No help comes. Imagine, staring into the sun, then, how the clouds spread out and open like wallets over a few corrugated roofs. Throughout this collection, Fish seeks truths about memory and loss, shame and redemption. She faces uncomfortable questions arising from our individual and collective actions, asking whether we are complicit in extinctions of species and how we reduce the humanity of prisoners by tying their identity to their crime. But these poems are also about naming life's particular joys: driving in spring, walking through the woods with dogs, or hearing a child speak through the mail slot. They offer a space to encounter lyrical meditation as an experience in and of itself.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I

First Teacher

Ars Poetica

Orphan

Alibi

Visiting

Location, Location

This

The Accounting

That Feeling

From the Road Walking

Part II

The Cistern

Flames Behind Your Head

Caravaggio's The Calling of St. Matthew

The Round-Up

Seen from Far Away

The Close of Winter

Depth of Field: Bruegel's Hunters in the Snow

Black Bough

Evening Song

From Another Past, This Past

Another Republic

Do You Believe in the Afterlife?

Training

The Kitchen

The Dream

Divorce

Part III

November

The Starfish

The Women's Prison

The Greyhound

What We Need

The Stand-In

Love

Driving in Spring

Notes

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780226769028

022676902X

OCLC:

1235599642