A book-length travel poem loosely modeled on seventeenth century haiku master Matsuo Bashō's epic Oku no Hosomichi (The Narrow Road to the Deep North).
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Precisely the Point Being Made: A Book of Poems
“For Norman Fischer, poetry is not the site of grandiose claims. It is an instrument of attention along the path one travels, out in the morning, back as the light fades….” — Michael Palmer
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“A smooth clear ball of glass containing intricate designs in many brilliant colors.” — Philip Whalen
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“I have often experienced the fact that no matter how difficult or how wonderful things get there is always some expression that is made. The world goes on carelessly unfolding.”— Geoffrey Young, from the Preface
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“[W]e don't know with certainty that reality has been given limitless time. Norman Fischer's urgent sensitivity to the metamorphoses at hand makes his writing real.” — Lyn Hejinian
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Morning coffee chapbook series.
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A book of poems written while Fischer and his family were living at Tassajara Zen Mountain Center.
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