Jessica Fisher

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.^[1] She is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California at Berkeley.^[2][3]

Her poems have appeared in The Believer,^[4] The Colorado Review, The New Yorker, The Three Penny Review, and TriQuarterly. She has appeared at LitQuake, San Francisco,^[5] and the Berkeley Poetry Review.

She lives in Oakland with her husband, daughter and son.

Work

• Excerpts from Frail Craft

Books

• Jessica Fisher (April 2, 2007). Frail-Craft. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300122350. 
• Jessica Fisher; Robert Hass, ed (2004). The Addison Street Anthology. Heyday Books. ISBN 9781890771942. http://books.google.com/books?id=OsVctDpFH6IC&dq=Jessica+Fisher+poet&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=hBVm2m8Jma&sig=GoU_uqH9Irly2LbMxBiNafQeGJI&hl=en&ei=V-K6SYDEFOHAtgfL88XiDw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result. 

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.^[6]

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.^[7]

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— ^[8]

References

1. ^ The Book’s The Thing, An Interview with Ann Fisher-Wirth, November 13, 2007
2. ^ http://english.berkeley.edu/contact/person_detail.php?person=198
3. ^ http://www.oakland.com/jessica-fisher-and-dimiter-kenarov-e573661
4. ^ http://www.believermag.com/contributors/?read=fisher,+jessica
5. ^ Authors, LitQuake
6. ^ Publishers Weekly, April 2007
7. ^ Jackie Clark, Frail-Craft by Jessica Fisher, ColdFrontMag, January 03, 2008
8. ^ Kirk Michael, Frail-Craft Jessica Fisher, Growler Poetry, Barrelhouse publishing

External references

• Lunch Poems: Jessica Fisher, YouTube
• Lunch Poems: Jessica Fisher channels.com
• Frail-Craft by Jessica Fisher, Poetwithadayjob
• Jessica Fisher, First Author Interviews, Kicking Wind, 20August 2007
• "Defect" by Jessica Fisher from At Length

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