No Chronology
88 pages
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6 x 9
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© 2021
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
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First Teacher
Ars Poetica
Orphan
Alibi
Visiting
Location, Location
This
The Accounting
That Feeling
From the Road Walking
*
The Cistern
Flames Behind Your Head
Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew
The Round-Up
Seen from Far Away
The Close of Winter
Depth of Field: Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow
Black Bough
*
Evening Song
From Another Past, This Past
Another Republic
Do You Believe in the Afterlife?
Training
The Kitchen
The Dream
Divorce
*
November
The Starfish
The Women’s Prison
The Greyhound
What We Need
The Stand-In
Love
Driving in Spring
Notes
*
First Teacher
Ars Poetica
Orphan
Alibi
Visiting
Location, Location
This
The Accounting
That Feeling
From the Road Walking
*
The Cistern
Flames Behind Your Head
Caravaggio’s The Calling of St. Matthew
The Round-Up
Seen from Far Away
The Close of Winter
Depth of Field: Bruegel’s Hunters in the Snow
Black Bough
*
Evening Song
From Another Past, This Past
Another Republic
Do You Believe in the Afterlife?
Training
The Kitchen
The Dream
Divorce
*
November
The Starfish
The Women’s Prison
The Greyhound
What We Need
The Stand-In
Love
Driving in Spring
Notes
Review Quotes
Khaled Mattawa, author of Fugitive Atlas
“While Karen Fish eschews chronology is this most remarkable of books, she nonetheless provides an unsparing, deeply insightful account of an inner life. Told aslant, with exquisite lyricism and incandescent imagery, No Chronology is a beautiful, thrilling book of poems.”
Alan Shapiro, author of Against Translation
“The angular, focused, gorgeous poems in No Chronology deal with big even lofty concerns in and through the smallest most grounded circumstances and detail. The poems deal with family disfunction, dislocation, addiction, romantic conflict, aging, and political violence in a style that’s as lyrically intense as narratively broad, in language that is fresh, idiosyncratic, and starkly vivid. The world Fish evokes so unforgettably remains recognizable as a literal world even while it’s irradiated with the white heat of subjectivity. This is a fantastic book.”
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