{"title":"B.K. Fischer","description":"\u003cp\u003eB.K. Fischer is the author of \u003ci\u003eCeive\u003c\/i\u003e (BOA, 2021), which was a finalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award, as well as four previous books of poetry: \u003ci\u003eRadioapocrypha\u003c\/i\u003e (Mad Creek Books, 2018), which won the 2018 The Journal\/Wheeler Prize; \u003ci\u003eMy Lover’s Discourse\u003c\/i\u003e (Tinderbox, 2018); \u003ci\u003eSt. Rage’s Vault\u003c\/i\u003e (The Word Works, 2013), which won the Washington Prize; and \u003ci\u003eMutiny Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e (Truman State University Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize. She is also the author of the critical study \u003ci\u003eMuseum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e (Routledge, 2006).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer poems and reviews have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Jacket2, FIELD, WSQ, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Studies\u003c\/i\u003e, and elsewhere. Fischer holds a BA from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University, an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, and a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University. A former poetry editor of \u003ci\u003eBoston Review\u003c\/i\u003e, she teaches The Comma Sutra, a course on grammar and syntax for creative practice, in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York with her husband and three children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor more about B.K. Fischer, visit \u003ca title=\"B.K. Fisher's website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bkfischer.com\/\"\u003ebkfischer.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ceive","title":"Ceive","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFinalist for the 2021 National Book Critics Circle Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA poetic retelling of Noah’s Ark set in the near future, \u003ci\u003eCeive\u003c\/i\u003e is a novella-in-verse that recounts a post-apocalyptic journey aboard a container ship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrative unfolds through poems following the perspective of a woman named Val, who is found in the wreckage of her flooding home by a former UPS delivery man. As environmental and political catastrophes force them to flee the Eastern Seaboard, Val and her rescuer take refuge alongside a group of pilgrims seeking refuge from the catastrophic collapse of a civilization destroyed by gun violence, climate crisis, and social unrest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ship of cargo and refugees is run by the captain Nolan and his wife Nadia, who set sail for Greenland, now warmed to a temperate climate. The couple place Val in charge of caring for a neurodivergent young boy who holds knowledge of analog navigation. Mourning her missing daughter, Val experiences both isolation and a wellspring of compassion in survival, an indefatigable need to connect. She and the other pilgrims weather illness and peril, boredom and conflict, deprivation and despair as they set sail across stormy, unfamiliar waters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing from the Anglo-Saxon poem \u003cem\u003eThe Seafarer\u003c\/em\u003e, the Bible, and the Latin root word in receive, \u003ci\u003eCeive\u003c\/i\u003e is a vision of eco-cataclysm and survival—inviting meditations on biodiversity, illness, social law, sustenance, scripture, menopause, sensory perception, human bonds, caregiving, and loss, all the while extending a call for renewal and hope.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eCeive\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“When the Flood comes for us, how do we recognize it as emergency? What from our old lives do we lack, and how do we make meaning out of formlessness and chaos? B.K. Fischer’s strikingly imaginative, wry yet tragic novella-in-verse tells the story of a contemporary Noah’s Ark set on a container ship in the Atlantic Ocean, a refuge from a world that’s been submerged. But as much as the apocalyptic drama drives \u003ci\u003eCeive\u003c\/i\u003e’s overall plot, the engine of each of these poems remains always and unfailingly language itself, as Fischer delivers exquisitely layered word-machines, rich in overlapping textures of allusion and noise. This book is a wonder, and now is the moment we need it most.” \u003cb\u003e—Monica Ferrell, author of \u003ci\u003eYou Darling Thing\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“We live in an unsustainable and contradictory age: ‘Left means what’s staying, and left means who went.’ Conceived in a period of undeniable ecological crisis compounded by a violent political climate and surging pandemic, \u003ci\u003eCeive\u003c\/i\u003e could not be more timely. In a loose translation of the flood myth, Fischer transports her characters from a drowning world, conceivably but without certainty, to dry land via freight containers off the North American coast. Drawing from \u003cem\u003eThe Seafarer\u003c\/em\u003e, Timothy Morton, Joan Miró, ancient myth, Hélène Cixous, and the deepest well of linguistic brilliance I’ve ever encountered, Fischer offers a future of possibility but no promise.” \u003cb\u003e—Aby Kaupang, author of \u003ci\u003eNOS (disorder, not otherwise specified)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003ePreconceive\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVal, don’t forget about\u003cbr\u003eType-one conditionality,\u003cbr\u003ea habitual occurrence: \u003ci\u003eif\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eit rains heavily, the valley\u003cbr\u003efloods\u003c\/i\u003e. Val, don’t deny\u003cbr\u003etype-two conditionality,\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ea likely occurrence: \u003ci\u003eif it\u003cbr\u003erains heavily, the valley\u003cbr\u003ewill flood\u003c\/i\u003e. Don’t be sur–\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eprized if it turns out to be\u003cbr\u003etype-three conditionality,\u003cbr\u003ehypotheticals: \u003ci\u003eif\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe whole world flooded,\u003cbr\u003eI would build an ark\u003c\/i\u003e. Val,\u003cbr\u003eyou’ve known all along\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGod regretted he made\u003cbr\u003ehuman beings on the earth\u003cbr\u003eand was deeply troubled\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIf you leave here now\u003cbr\u003eyou will never know\u003cbr\u003ehow high the water gets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAs the waters increase\u003cbr\u003ethey will bear up the ark\u003cbr\u003eand the waters prevail\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BOA Editions, Ltd.","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45961672687845,"sku":"","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover (Signed)","offer_id":45961672720613,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/products\/Ceive_MR1_CVR_RGB_SM.jpg?v=1624372889"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0982\/0178\/collections\/BKFischer_Photo_Credit_-_Gina_DeCaprio_Verces.jpg?v=1618857797","url":"https:\/\/shop.boaeditions.org\/collections\/b-k-fischer.oembed","provider":"Boa Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}