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Lisa Fishman

“A shudder runs up my spine and the old awe steals over me as I read Lisa Fishman’s FLOWER CART, at once charmed and disconcerted by its cache of documents, its systems of control and divination—in the spirit of the daybook—its homespun regimes, its furtive games of chance. Suddenly it occurs to me that Fishman’s writing feels apocalyptic in its winnowing, its implacable gestures, like a messenger flashing the equals sign of disappearance and revelation. These poems walk so far inland that one arrives at a place where an oar might be mistaken for an auger, or a spade, glimpsed in the light of shipwreck.” —Daniel Tiffany

“There is so much that happens in the little words.” Made true, in Lisa Fishman’s deeply original materia bouquet. Slippery and sonorous, seed for thought: FLOWER CART is a captivating book.” —Carol Snow