Current

Lisa Fishman Free Verse Editions Edited by Jon Thompson Information and Pricing 978-1-60235-200-1 (paperback, $14); 978-1-60235-201-8 (PDF, $9.99);m978-1-60235-729-7 (EPUB, $9.99) © 2011 by Parlor Press.106 pages. Bookstores: Order by fax, mail, or phone. See our "Sales and Ordering Page" for details. About This Book 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. Praise for Lisa Fishman's work . . . [H]er poems are consistently powerful in their close hewing to the physical world. —Publishers Weekly "Part of what ma