A "splendid first collection" (Thomas Lux) of original poems by master poet Ira Joe Fisher, also known for his weekly appearances on The Saturday Early Show for CBS. Some Holy Weight in the Village Air "chronicles small-town life, its scandals and secret tragedies and small undoings" (Paula McLain) in language which "often dazzles and is always compassionate, immediate, powerful, and tender" (Kevin Pilkington).
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...a splendid first collection...Some Holy Weight should be read by book buyers in their thousands. -- Thomas Lux, author of The Cradle Place
...language that often dazzles and is always compassionate, immediate, powerful, and tender... -- Kevin Pilkington, author of Ready to Eat the Sky
Fisher chronicles small-town life, its scandals and secret tragedies...a moving and a complex vision. -- Paula McLain, author of Stumble, Gorgeous
Fisher will remind readers of Robert Frost... Thoughtful and hushed imagistic works. -- Kirkus Discoveries, July 17, 2006
Fisher...is indeed one of today's most gifted and talented poets...a thoroughly thought-provoking collection. -- ForeWord Clarion, July 17, 2006
...language that often dazzles and is always compassionate, immediate, powerful, and tender... -- Kevin Pilkington, author of Ready to Eat the Sky
Fisher chronicles small-town life, its scandals and secret tragedies...a moving and a complex vision. -- Paula McLain, author of Stumble, Gorgeous
Fisher will remind readers of Robert Frost... Thoughtful and hushed imagistic works. -- Kirkus Discoveries, July 17, 2006
Fisher...is indeed one of today's most gifted and talented poets...a thoroughly thought-provoking collection. -- ForeWord Clarion, July 17, 2006
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Some Holy Weight in the Village Air gives voice and depth to small-town American experience in the tradition of Robert Frost. Fisher’s book is the first volume of Athanata Arts’ NYQ Poetry Series, established to present book-length collections of poets recognized by publication in the The New York Quarterly poetry journal founded by William Packard in 1969.
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In SOME HOLY WEIGHT IN THE VILLAGE AIR, Ira Joe Fisher captures both the light and the dark of Life in America. I believe his hauntingly named village will take its place with Spoon River, Illinois, and Winesburg, Ohio as places that spring to life in the words of a gifted writer. Mr. Fisher's particular contributions to this tradition are a sense of hope, a love of Life, and yes, even a faith in human nature, sorely missing from those earlier works.
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