ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | 24 Pages and Other Poems by Lisa Fishman

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24 Pages and Other Poems by Lisa Fishman

Lisa Fishman’s sixth book of poetry is centered on bodies and where they are in relation to each other—whether a body is of plant; of person; or of words, and whether a body is personal or civic; singular or collective; alive or dead. The contradictions of lyric unfold, in this most unconventional elegy, by means of perception so steady it can change. 24 Pages and other poems extends backward and forward, with the presence of many, such as John Clare and Friederike Mayröcker, helping along the way.

 

Excerpt

As if a corridor

could open or the EAR’s two missing

letters — h e a r t — e a r t h — wherever

an animal pops out of the water such as a hooded merganser

appeared to do a somersault diving under, not like a mallard more like a child

or a ball — it didn’t come up
until it did

 

Publisher Information

  • Series: Wave Books
  • Paperback: 96 pages
  • Publisher: Wave Books (April 7, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1940696100
  • ISBN-13: 978-1940696102

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fishmanLisa Fishman is the author of five books of poetry, including F L O W E R C A R T, Current, and The Happiness Experiment. Her latest collection, 24 Pages and other poems, is forthcoming from Wave Books in spring 2015. The first Lorine Niedecker Poet-in-Residence in Fort Atkinson and Blackhawk Island, Fishman lives in Orfordville and Madison, Wisconsin. She teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

 

ECKLEBURG BOOK CLUB | Superior Packets by Susie Timmons

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Superior Packets by Susie Timmons

35 years worth of poems by Susie Timmons, long heralded by her peers in New York such as Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, and Eileen Myles, previously only available in small-run editions. Her poems are witty, smart, and quick, with a pleasantly surprising clarity and freshness.

 

Blurbs

“Her titles alone should give readers a sense of her poetics: low-key yet brainy, spunky yet depressive, post-second-wave New York School yet retaining that group’s hallmark East Village sensibility.” — Publishers Weekly

“Superior Packets is a joy to read—lucid, celebratory, enchanting, unpretentious, overabundant, sieve-like, epiphanic, bloodhounding, and imbued with a quick-witted voice that embodies and celebrates the fundamental universals we lose in the dailiness of our lives: how thoughts and feelings and experiences form, how they move, and what they might look like in their primordial state, pre-speech, when they’re still what we mean to say and not what we think people want to hear.” — Anelyse Gelman

 

Publisher Information

  • Paperback: 200 pages
  • Publisher: Wave Books; First Edition edition (April 7, 2015)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1940696062
  • ISBN-13: 978-1940696065

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timmonsSusie Timmons was born in Chicago and has lived in New York most of her life. Timmons first book of poetry, Locked from the Outside, was the inaugural winner of the Ted Berrigan Award, judged by Alice Notley, Robert Creeley, Anselm Hollo, and Ron Padgett. Her book, Superior Packets, is forthcoming from Wave Books in the spring of 2015.