Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition by Lisa Fishman (English) Paperback Book

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Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition

by Lisa Fishman

A wonderfully expansive collection of writings that capture daily practice and attention.

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Publisher Description

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 maddened speech, 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 in peril.

Author Biography

Lisa 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.

Table of Contents

Table of ContentsI.[Truth-telling is possible, thought Laura Riding . . .][not "using words"][the Five Ways to jump][Spring goes down][Michael says the poem will speak][Anyone says a few things . . .][How is every giant lunatic today? . . .][That walk up the hill . . .][Hill comes up][Each thing seen is upside down]Night Skiing[Full moon if I could see it][The March King has horse's ears][The Dawn Redwood's branches curve up]WinterCilentoSwiftwritingSwift 2[You have a noon face . . .][There were broken birds . . .][I notice my heart . . .][Again no mother was][Sweet Go Go Lime]Swift 3WritingSortingStoringPin DropCorrection to Klee"The sun's five hours slow"[Letter One . . .][Claw eth the cold . . .]Worksheet, March 2013[GUITAR DRAW STAR][Gulls lifted over][A house has a cloud . . .][Being asked to write the sounds . . .][What is the outside process?]Memory Exercise[When 10 voices appear][transcription missing][Don't take apples from tortoise man?]ScrapsThe Fingers[I rode the Red Line . . .][D. H. Lawrence wrote a letter.]"While You Were Out" [#1][DonMee was talking . . .][I asterisk june . . .][Who was the? . . .]What the Donkey SaidNovember 16 – December 1, 2016["i've been looking for you . . ."][how far a person recedes]II.[Wherefore she changed her mind][da Vinci wrote, "If the sun is in the East . . ."][J is painting the birch stump . . .]A dress for the carnival.[With one person I've experienced . . .][The rest of the morning.]Transcribed to be read aloud[Compost – decay][they all add up to instructions][Rain at 4 a.m.][The sun appears to have gotten closer . . .][Clouds over Lake Michigan . . .]Found[James just observed . . .][Dandelion says]da Vinci again[day before yesterday][first night at the beekeeper's]Transcribed from the Speech Accent Archive[& drew that eye-shape with you in it][The palm of the hand is as square as a house][The shadow had a use][farm objects are]"While You Were Out" [#2][We're still in][Seventh grade assignment sheet . . .]Notes[The child drew lines in a rounding curve . . .][And: the rhyme is a hand Bell-made . . .][An internal window divides . . .][Storm light: singular][Others could tell the difference . . .]night day night[Instructed to move the bees . . .][A word not sleeping][I could remember a small amount][airplane womb sound][All winter couldn't fit outside a book][Abbott Road]where are the bees[Catalogs are full of pictures][Beginning with a silver pencil . . .][On the Beara Peninsula][Completion an instant][Spotted Winged Drosophilia . . .][I would like some sea salt . . .][James is pounding copper][Have sent a point from out][Who will confess that][Misheard what and why][May ever any thing come in]Mid-May to SeptemberA note from my mother in the 70's[The night is rustling . . .]III.Summer, 2015IV."Preserving a Sand Mandala"Orfordville, 2006[Time does oscillate Aha][landscape][Each letter begins with the alphabet . . .][Extract what you were looking at . . .][The rest of the notebook appears to be . . .][When the wild onion floats on its back . . .][Many lines around the eyes][Observation of pattern . . .]Transcriptions from unknown sources[In Avoca, I said field][remember 2 days][Here a pen draws a line through . . .]Salzburg translations[I mean any position of the mouth is][Parody of 18thc Rationalism . . .][Inside, read what you wrote][The number 1 under the belly of the deer]On the Beara PeninsulaV.Deer 1VI.At the same time as scatteringVII.[clara luna parce-que la jour][Can you carry this object]Loose-leafteaching notesWorksheetwinter and summer"When the fog was all gone, Bear felt sad."SundialThe plums kept darkness as a net[Yesterday was Wednesday?][Red start or Fire tail]News paper Miracles Wonders Curiousitys & c & c[FIRE HORSE SHOWS][How Animals Grieve]November 1st, 2nd or 3rd[A line through a forest][I have a Catherine][the beautiful idealism?][Unpredicted, snow fell][Language goes on General Strike][I observe Kellen walking in the middle . . .][Writing to see what can remember . . .]["Snow taken from high peaks of mountains . . ."][Carnation in French . . .][As I was driving through Dolly's window]Smash this[Certain feet are large like boats . . .][Unicycle song structure]May, 2004 – December, 2017[Morning now, afterrain, owe 50][Everything's under the trainwhistle . . .][No form][Not making the bed not][Also the daily tumble]VIII.[process][We looked for rocks]Alphabet in Oklahoma[James goes to school, assigned to write]Another OK ABC[Oil the breadboards and don't remember]Pedagogical Sketchbook, p. 47[Page from a book on astronomy]Discerned[A nuthatch walked up the box elder][crankshaft pulley][bpN says "they covered each other with longing"][my name is lisa fiction . . .]Spoon FestPostcard from MontréalAcknowledgements

Review

Much like the sudden odor of rain or dry leaves rustling, these exquisite poems are not outside the common world. Rather, they are found entirely within it--in the sounds, smells, feel of a life, of each day's sun and its fading, of what we can know of one another. Lisa Fishman writes with an impeccable sense of cadence, of words as sounds too, of physical fact becoming thought and then recurring as poetry.
--Robert Creeley Lisa Fishman is a writer who works--confidently, brilliantly--in close-up, often phrase to phrase, building texts that knock you over with their rhythms & insights even though it would be very difficult indeed to paraphrase what she's doing.
--Ron Silliman This is a world in the midst of creation, an Ars Poetica of everything.
--Publishers Weekly

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Excerpt from Book

Worksheet Fifth day of Spring 2014 is full of snow like the first, second and third An abecadarium in the snowbook, my notebook mostly blank I see begins with Ah Bright Cow Doing Everything Fine, Get Happy It Jeers The abc poem stopping there gives way to Halves Bell Tree does she talk about how she knows? I don't know what I meant or thought. Last year, first week of March was 85 degrees Now we ski between the rows An archive selves a page falls out Carry the flat star bucket across the sky field it works better telescopic / scope to tell of I did smile ordinary? Appears I was translating a thing now missing sound by sound Feather falls UP out of the bed If you keep looking atsnow you'll see the word now & was the Ice Age woman carved of mammoth tusk not a woman but a sea-creature w/dolphin nose. If you hold the tusk the opposite way, "upside down," that's what you might see. We don't know how the carver held it, he or she or they.

Description for Sales People

Fishman has strong ties to the Objectivist movement and writers such as Louis Zukofsky and, especially, Lorine Niedecker, and this has potential to be be considered a major work participating in this lineage. Both the rural (Driftless, central Wisconsin) and urban (Chicago) Midwest feature prominently in the book; it should find interest with audiences in these regions. The book deals richly with natural history and ecology and should appeal to readers of all genres interested in nature writing. This is a ranging, ambitious project, artfully collecting material from a 16-year span in spacious arrangements that allow numerous interpretations and resonances, yet this scale is neatly contained in an approachable book that should invite classroom and reading group engagements. Fishman has a strong interest in reading at the Wisconsin Book Festival, but she also has plans for reading on both the East and West coasts and, especially, in Canada, where she has dual citizenship.

Details ISBN1950268063 Author Lisa Fishman Pages 208 Publisher Wave Books Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1950268063 ISBN-13 9781950268061 Format Paperback DEWEY 811.6 Imprint Wave Books Place of Publication Seattle Country of Publication United States Illustrations Illustrated throughout NZ Release Date 2020-09-17 US Release Date 2020-09-17 Publication Date 2020-09-17 UK Release Date 2020-09-17 Audience General AU Release Date 2020-10-12

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  • Condition: Brand new
  • ISBN-13: 9781950268061
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  • ISBN: 9781950268061
  • Publication Year: 2020
  • Format: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Book Title: Mad World, Mad Kings, Mad Composition
  • Item Height: 228mm
  • Author: Lisa Fishman
  • Publisher: Wave Industries Books
  • Topic: Poetry
  • Item Width: 177mm
  • Number of Pages: 208 Pages

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