Jessica Fisher
Encyclopedia
Jessica Fisher is an American poet
, and was the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
in 2007.
She is the daughter of Ann Fisher-Wirth
. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley.
Her poems have appeared in The Believer, The Colorado Review, The New Yorker, The Three Penny Review, and TriQuarterly. She has appeared at LitQuake, San Francisco, and the Berkeley Poetry Review
.
She lives in Oakland with her husband, daughter and son.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
, and was the winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
The Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the first collection of a promising American poet...
in 2007.
She is the daughter of Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth is an American poet and scholar.Her books include Blue Window: Poems, The Trinket Poems, and William Carlos Williams and Autobiography: The Woods of His Own Nature....
. She is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley.
Her poems have appeared in The Believer, The Colorado Review, The New Yorker, The Three Penny Review, and TriQuarterly. She has appeared at LitQuake, San Francisco, and the Berkeley Poetry Review
Berkeley Poetry Review
The Berkeley Poetry Review is a widely-distributed American poetry journal published by the undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley and is considered the premier student-run poetry journal in the United States...
.
She lives in Oakland with her husband, daughter and son.
Work
Reviews
Louise Glück's fourth pick as judge of the prestigious Yale Series of Younger poets prize is a debut filled with dark, ethereal verses and prose poems.
Another point which begs to be made is that certain types of poems/manuscripts seem to be championed in this circumstance: poems that are safe but pretty, tense but disclosed, risqué but not truly subversive. Welcome to Jessica Fisher’s Frail-Craft, a book that balances the dominant and egocentric “I” with the more universal and heavily praised collective identity. This book is full of what feel like genuine experiences and emotions coupled with sometimes interesting but mostly tired and intrusive insights.
Like Carson, Fisher imprints a saturated pattern of reddish blips on the reader’s mind. In fact, the last lines of the red-tinted section of “Stereography” could describe the reader’s collective response to engaging Fisher’s dense palette of words:
but for a long time we watched
their hot color flashing—