Listening to Winter

“Molly Fisk brings to her readers a poetry of great emotional power, linguistic invention, and courage. She looks long and hard at the world, and speaks to what she sees with both clarity and depth.” Jane Hirshfield

“The pure lyric voice is what will endear her to lovers of poetry. That voice will last a lifetime.” Carolyn Kizer

“An intellectually self-aware, bold and brilliant re/consideration of the culturally paradigmatic problem of incest. In lacunae and ellipses as powerful as the poems themselves, she shows to the mind the heart’s wounds and forces it to make of them an answer. Complex, memorable, Listening to Winter makes vivid the real and dangerous work of what is called, contemptuously, ‘confessionalism,’ meditating, from its most intimate perspective, on the nature and costs of ‘The Old Order.'” Linda McCarriston

RECENTLY DISCOVERED REVIEW OF LISTENING TO WINTER
“A powerful, profound, stunning collection. With candor and courage, Fisk tackles one of the toughest subjects for writers of any genre, childhood incest. Poetry, with its deliberate word choices and spare lines, is perhaps the ideal expression for this horror. Fisk strikes a perfect balance between emotional infusion and necessary detachment. Her work is a stellar example of poetry’s own cliche, show don’t tell. With half a line, “white Carter Spanky Pants, size 6x” (Moment), Fisk induces a visceral reaction. There is a fascinating juxtaposition in this book, with poems of adult erotic encounters also included. These are skillfully crafted in-your-face, raw poems, yet Fisk’s total command of language makes them sing. I keep picking this book up, re-reading. These are some of the poems I’m especially drawn to: “Neighbor,” “Ford F150,” “Couples,” “Veterans,” “This is the Story of My Life,” “The View From Here.” Buy this book. Read it. Read it again, then share it with everybody you know. Nina, on Goodreads

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