{"id":13342,"date":"2021-03-06T12:12:54","date_gmt":"2021-03-06T18:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/?post_type=product&#038;p=13342"},"modified":"2022-01-18T15:47:44","modified_gmt":"2022-01-18T21:47:44","slug":"there-was-a-clattering-as","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/shop\/there-was-a-clattering-as\/","title":{"rendered":"There was a clattering as\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lavenderink.org\/site\/books\/norman-fischer\">Norman Fischer<\/a><\/h2>\n<h3>There was a clattering as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p>130 Pages \/\u00a0Poetry<br \/>\n978-1-944884-91-8<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span> (pbk. $19.95)<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>April 2021<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The pandemic is a fact, a metaphor, an archetype, an epoch-changing moment of history, and an occasion for collective soul-searching. In this various, long, and haunting text, including much direct and bent quotation from a variety of works, Norman Fischer takes the reader on a swerving ride through space and time (ancient Rome, biblical Jerusalem, Elizabethan and 16th Century England, 17th Century Portugal, 19th Century France, etc.) that seems, with patient logic, to be building toward a conclusion about what pandemics are about, and where they lead us. This breathless poem pokes at the limits of meaning as it explores what what we call &#8220;religion&#8221; has to say and not say about it.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">Praise for <i>There was a clattering as&#8230;<\/i><\/h3>\n<p>Nothing human is alien to me, as one old saying has it. Norman Fischer\u2019s new book shows us how this might look in practice. It is a complex continuity, part pandemic poetry, part quoted prose, with lots of in-between. At times we are reading Fischer in 21st century quarantine; at times Defoe\u2019s 17th century journal of the London plague, or Melville\u2019s <i>Confidence Man<\/i>, or <i>Candide<\/i>. Pandemics and swindlers are not new, and there are no happy endings. But thank goodness for Fischer\u2019s capacious sympathies and realistic good humor. The glass is half full, if we choose to believe it.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2014<strong>Bob Perelman,<\/strong> author of <i>IFLIFE<\/i> and <i>Jack and Jill in Troy<\/i><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Can you write about the plague without this writing being situational and somehow banal?<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Yes you can, \u201cThere was a clattering as&#8230;\u201d, is a poem about the plague, human condition, world materiality, soul fertility, and the mutual creation of God and human. 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This book is magnificent and as human as it could get.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014<strong>Maged Zaher<\/strong>, author of <i>Early, New and Collected Poems <\/i>and <i>The Consequences of my Body<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norman Fischer<br \/>\n9781944884918<br \/>\n&#8220;&#8230;a fact, a metaphor, an archetype, an epoch-changing moment&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[236,16],"product_tag":[394,18],"class_list":{"0":"post-13342","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-books","7":"product_cat-lavender-ink","8":"product_tag-norman-fischer","9":"product_tag-poetry","11":"first","12":"instock","13":"taxable","14":"shipping-taxable","15":"purchasable","16":"product-type-simple","17":"berocket_lgv_grid","18":"berocket_lgv_list_grid"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - 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