“Fischer has developed a wide range of ways to re-imagine everyday situations, and to challenge the habitual feeling tones that they evoke.…
The Buddha’s message has moved through a number of different cultures in its long history. Will it put down lasting roots in our own? If it does, then it will have to adapt to this culture, keeping its spirit but re-imagining itself in new cultural forms. Who better for this task than a poet?”
"REVIEW: The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path Norman Fischer," The Zen Gateway, April 2019.