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Book SynopsisThe poems in No Chronology offer lyrical meditations on our shared experiences, illuminating life's deep discomforts and peculiar joys.
Trade Review"The angular, focused, gorgeous poems in No Chronology deal with big even lofty concerns in and through the smallest most grounded circumstances and detail. The poems deal with family disfunction, dislocation, addiction, romantic conflict, aging, and political violence in a style that's as lyrically intense as narratively broad, in language that is fresh, idiosyncratic, and starkly vivid. The world Fish evokes so unforgettably remains recognizable as a literal world even while it's irradiated with the white heat of subjectivity. This is a fantastic book."--Alan Shapiro, author of Against Translation "While Karen Fish eschews chronology is this most remarkable of books, she nonetheless provides an unsparing, deeply insightful account of an inner life. Told aslant, with exquisite lyricism and incandescent imagery, No Chronology is a beautiful, thrilling book of poems."--Khaled Mattawa, author of Fugitive Atlas
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments * First Teacher Ars Poetica Orphan Alibi Visiting Location, Location This The Accounting That Feeling From the Road Walking * 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 * November The Starfish The Women’s Prison The Greyhound What We Need The Stand-In Love Driving in Spring Notes
