Rumors of Shore:

"The wildness of the natural world, and of the spirit, just barely contained; the elemental and the ephemeral; a primal darkness full of stars; fistfuls of tart black fruit -- this is the stuff out of which Paul Fisher makes his poems, poems that are mysterious and musical and often terrifyingly beautiful, carved out of the strange light of this world “into luck, luminosities, pearls.”"
– Cecilia Woloch
   author of Carpathia

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ISBN: 1421891492  |  EAN: 9781421891491

Featured poem:

The Gift

Searching for the lost coin,
now stubborn in its hiding,
I sweep the hardwood floor,
scour the cedar deck,
rifle drawers, claw through chests,
rake the garden’s tangled depths,
mole-roads, rose roots, blackberry crypts,
corner it at last
– belly-up but breathing –
behind an empty apple box
forgotten in the dream-infested
mushroom cellar, pulsing like a toad
resigned to spit and brood
below the creaking timbers of the house.
Tiny as a redwood seed
and rough as pumice stone, it cries
with the thin voice of a penny
when I bend to pick it up,
as if by pleading in the dark
sown deep around us
it could deflect one thorn or thought,
reverse one whirling atom,
as if by sinking into shadow
it could become the nothing it is not.