Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real: Poems 1980-2001

By Harrison Fisher

"This is the only book youll ever need. Herein I have collected the produce of my continual forays into the plastic flow of the earths interior and poetical translations of the cryptic discharge of the material nothingness, including meditations on skin-sortie, drink empery, Now Sound. Theres even a wee bit of prose for those who like to read all the way to the right margin. In the words of I, Adult Strong, See atoms lifeless! Feel my throbbing emptiness. Experience the wild heat of a morbid heart. Buy this, die strangely happy."

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Aug 29, 2000
• ISBN: 9781462804382

Harrison Fisher

Harrison Fisher was born in New York City in 1954. Poematics of the Hyperbloody Real is his twelfth collection of poems. He lives and works in Albany, New York.

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Contents

Where The Drag Grow

Deputized

Bewilderness

Secret Ear in the Ear Hearing Air

The Body

If You Eggbear or Eggbearing

French Death of the Author

King Faruk in My Underwear

The Hippopotamus

Behavioral Sink

Clerihews

Three Haikus

Blue Memo

There Should Be

Poem

Hedges

Natura Flagrante Wallpaper

Roundel

The Achieve Of

They Say Our Love Won’t Grow

Dreckeffekt

Ectoplasmic Ax

Diana Naked Before The Stag-Man

I Left My Child at the Petting Zoo

It Comes Down

Don’t Be Bones

The Tingler

Cycloid Pudding

Magumba Love Undo That Work

To Not Eat But Drink, And Be Merry, Not Married

Each New Day Is Like Tomorrowland

Jealousy, A Translation

Greatest Car Song Ever Told

Colossus Unknown

Loser, Asshole, National Treasure

A Man and A Woman

Metagoyle

Gai Saber

Recycling Gets to Me

Don’t Let Me Be A Prisoner

Speeding Mud Dead

Snails Kept Our Yard

Home

Little Egypt in Little Italy

U-Write-It

Diktat

The Marriage of Abstract and Obtuse

Love Poem No. 2D, 1988

Holiday

Three Booklets

Inglory

Punk Nuns

Poem

Poem

Poem

Road to Bali

Ode on Today of All Days, Your Mother’s Anniversary

Ode of Something Pathetic Found

Land

Genegram

Women in Misery

The Cabinet of Dr. Fisher

Why Do The Girls

The Gardening Gets Tough

P/Noetics

Our Cheesy Universe

Rhomboid Hairdo

Practitioner of the Talking Pestilence

Put A Spell On

We Two Are Not As One

Song of the Father

One Ocean On Earth

Bob

 New Organon: What I Now Now

13 Paragraphs

Psychopomp at the Aristotelian Predicaments

Dots

Jazzz

Hideous Corpus

Cloud Mask

Discourse on Method

Down the Mouth, the Rent in the World

Spring 1994

Alcohol, Dating, and Evolution

Secret

Spring

The Last Word (Formerly, The Lost Word)

Omega-Snort Gastronome

Pictogrammamud

Historiographer of Smut

Personal Effects

(Poem)

Plain Speaking on Family Values

Iota Showdown

Mommy Bakes Under Jack’s Evil Neptune Hideous Oral Homes

And From Hera’s Brow?

Decrepit Lives

My Walk, My Talk

He Makes a Gargling Musick

ppoem: Pretties For You

Do The Fly

The G Man

Beyond Pluto and Beyond

Ghastlification of the Tongue

Standing on the Hero Shrew

fantastic pomp of structure without name

O To Go On For So Long

Notes

Some of these poems, as presented here or in different form, have appeared in or, in some cases, may have appeared in the following publications:

Aerial, Albany Review, Anyart Journal, Barney, Benzene, Epoch, Forehead, Gee-Gee, House Organ, Lazy Bones Review, Luna Tack, Materiul, Mississippi Mud, Newport Review, o 1329-FISH-layout.pdf blek, Oink!, Oovrah, Open Places, Room, Snap, Twisted, Water Pik, and Zentropy.

One Ocean on Earth and Jazzz appeared in slightly different form in Fiction International, issues 15:1 and 16:1, respectively.

Punk Nuns appeared in Carolina Quarterly and aired regularly for a few weeks on WBCN-FM, Boston sometime between 1978 and 1980.

Spring 1994 appeared in the National Library of Poetry anthology The Garden of Life.

(Pink) SCROO was published in 1981 in an edition of 100 as issue number 5 of Bingo Chow by F MANIA PRODS of Providence, Rhode Island, designed by the author. The sixth poem of the booklet is not reproduced here as its text has been subsumed into the poem Iota Showdown in this volume.

Intersentential Outreach was published in 1988 in an edition of 200 by Frank Doombooks of Albany, New York,