Reviews for Frail-Craft

The average rating for Frail-Craft based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2007-09-10 00:00:00 Gary Chack This is a quiet book, meticulous, very careful. There are moments when some would call this metapoetry, but I don't think that would be accurate. Fisher seems to be playing not with the poem, but questioning the nature of English, its history, how we understand it. To say language, then, is the thrust of this book is also to sell it short. Isn't all poetry about language, ultimately, or shouldn't it be? She takes these issues as they come to investigate further, past language into meaning, past experience into memory, past memory into the self we create and hold. Eerily, these are poems I don't remember reading, which seem new every time, always positioning themselves, somehow, as other.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-03-27 00:00:00 Brandie Spoon mmm. i like these a lot. lots of good poems that I can't put here cause format forbids ("Song," "Stereography," others") - but here's one - My Russian Lullaby Jessica Fisher That wolves sleep, though they hunger, is little comfort. Snow falls on snow, furious for white, still it is the craving that marks you, you are not numb but stunned by sorrow, every nook and cranny of its shop of signs crammed full, and sorrow is to you as the dog is to the bone: worrying a dead thing, or a thing that wants to be let alone, to sleep until the hunger passes