The 21 shorter poems included here in Fishers third collection
often provide a startling twist that creates a pang of delight and
surprise, while the three longer works allow for that and a fuller
narrative exploration. Amnesia, a stunning six-poem sequence,
explores the experience of having no memories other than running
down a street / behind the beating of my heart, while you cant
remember what it is you cant remember. In Four Fragments for Lent,
scripture bumps up against contemporary event, but it is the nine
Estuary Poems (about claims of homeland versus immigration) that
succeed most vividly. Here Fishers economy and elegance shine as
she describes the assimilation of Celtic peoples as moving from
Home known, home heard of / home receding into legend, and all the
while / unnoticed, this is home, and no-one says it / till the
moments gone, the strange / collective calm decision taken. By this
process, a people can drown a people, gradually, / gently. Without
a ripple. And yet they are not fully drowned, for the poet, the one
who knows the moment when the words all stand in line rides off on
a ghost-boat to Avalon. Fishers richly imagined and musical poems
show disciplined verse that relies on its own internal logic. For
example, Cat Lane uses quatrains to subtle and allusive effect: Fog
lives here. It slinks against walls, / lithe, muscled, never heard.
/ A drainpipe ticks in the yard, / each drop wobbling as it
falls.These delightful poems weave myth and dream in new and
lyrical ways sure to please more than one group of readers. (Kirkus
Reviews)
A Victorian skeleton and a Vampire Ballet are among the unusual
subjects in this collection. Lyrical grace combined with a sharp
eye for imagery and a precise use of language are Fisher's
hallmarks. Her themes are history, religion, and memory,
highlighted in her sequence about an amnesiac and, in the final
section of sonnets, an imaginative chronicle of immigrant
forebears.
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