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David L. Fisher | |
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Born | David Lincoln Fisher March 16, 1942 North Carolina, U.S. |
Died | February 2, 2015 Sacramento, California, U.S. | (aged 72)
Resting place | Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Cemetery, Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S. |
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Education | High school, Rolesville, North Carolina; Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Duke University |
Notable awards | Two National Endowment fellowships; recipient with Stella Monday of the first annual William Carlos Williams Award (for best book of poetry published by small, non-profit, or university press) for Teachings (Back Roads Books, 1977, 1978); winner of the first William Meredith Award for Poetry 2012 for I Hear Always the Dogs on the Hospital Roof |
David Lincoln Fisher (16 March 1942 – 2 February 2015) was an American poet and translator. Fisher was awarded two National Endowment fellowships. [1] In 1978, his bookTeachings won the first annual William Carlos Williams Award. He also won the first William Meredith Award for Poetry in 2012 for I Hear Always the Dogs on the Hospital Roof. [2] He was published frequently in Kayak and other literary magazines. Fisher remained a relatively unknown outsider in the poetry world due to a lifelong battle with mental illness. [3]
Fisher graduated from Duke University, and claimed to have served in the Norwegian Merchant Marines. He studied at the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany and the Sorbonne in Paris, and received a degree from the Yale Graduate School of English. He was apparently working toward a PhD there as well, but it is unclear whether it was completed. [4] [5] [6]
He worked as a professor in several colleges, including Saint Mary's College of California in Maraga, CA, and manned suicide prevention hotlines. [4] [5]
Fisher married Amanda (Mandy) Hawes on 26 August 1967 [6].
Fisher died at the age of 72 in Sacramento, California and was buried at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Cemetery, Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S. [7]
Fisher was fluent in and translated poetry from several languages. [8] Many of his published poems are translations from French, Italian, Spanish, or German. In Soup No. 3, accompanying his poem Where the Last Huts Are, Fisher wrote:
Good poets borrow, great poets steal. I rest by reading poems in other languages, and rorschach my way into phrasings which I dimly and dreamily understand. When, however, I find a poem which, it seems to me, could not be bettered in any way, and which in its entirety is of living importance, I often seek to translate. As a translator, I am a total conservative; I admire Ben Belitt's translations, but I would never 'better' Neruda or Lorca as he does, so that for example, Neruda's 'confusion of vegetables' becomes 'a bedlam of vegetables,' and in which meaning and number and order freely dissolve. My versions are as literal as I can get them. [9]
Josephine Miles wrote: "One great thing about David Fisher's poems—you must read them. Another great thing is—then you must read them again. Of few poets can this be said." [10]
W. S. Merwin wrote: "I've been reading and re-reading Teachings with pleasure, fascination, and admiration. And now The Book of Madness—clearly more penetrating, more troubling, and at once more capsized and more masterful." [10]
William Meredith wrote of I Hear Always the Dogs on the Hospital Roof: “The poems are direct and beautiful, and only afterwards terrifying: you find you have confronted things you might not have had the heart to confront in yourself and the world without this strong and gentle talent to invite you.” [10]
George Oppen wrote: "' . . . you will find me, love, in the streets'—this is the note and the scale and the image of those moving poems: the image that may save us who are now so profoundly endangered. For God's sake, read these poems." [11]
Paul Mariah, co-founder of Manroot Books, [12] wrote: "To David, his vocabulary was multilingual.... We can be arrested on almost every page of David's work; for his style, content, form. He has established himself as a ranking postmodernist surrealist poet."
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David L. Fisher | |
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Born | David Lincoln Fisher March 16, 1942 North Carolina, U.S. |
Died | February 2, 2015 Sacramento, California, U.S. | (aged 72)
Resting place | Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Cemetery, Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S. |
Occupation |
|
Education | High school, Rolesville, North Carolina; Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, Duke University |
Notable awards | Two National Endowment fellowships; recipient with Stella Monday of the first annual William Carlos Williams Award (for best book of poetry published by small, non-profit, or university press) for Teachings (Back Roads Books, 1977, 1978); winner of the first William Meredith Award for Poetry 2012 for I Hear Always the Dogs on the Hospital Roof |
David Lincoln Fisher (16 March 1942 – 2 February 2015) was an American poet and translator. Fisher was awarded two National Endowment fellowships. [1] In 1978, his bookTeachings won the first annual William Carlos Williams Award. He also won the first William Meredith Award for Poetry in 2012 for I Hear Always the Dogs on the Hospital Roof. [2] He was published frequently in Kayak and other literary magazines. Fisher remained a relatively unknown outsider in the poetry world due to a lifelong battle with mental illness. [3]
Fisher graduated from Duke University, and claimed to have served in the Norwegian Merchant Marines. He studied at the University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany and the Sorbonne in Paris, and received a degree from the Yale Graduate School of English. He was apparently working toward a PhD there as well, but it is unclear whether it was completed. [4] [5] [6]
He worked as a professor in several colleges, including Saint Mary's College of California in Maraga, CA, and manned suicide prevention hotlines. [4] [5]
Fisher married Amanda (Mandy) Hawes on 26 August 1967 [6].
Fisher died at the age of 72 in Sacramento, California and was buried at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary Cemetery, Wake Forest, North Carolina, U.S. [7]
Fisher was fluent in and translated poetry from several languages. [8] Many of his published poems are translations from French, Italian, Spanish, or German. In Soup No. 3, accompanying his poem Where the Last Huts Are, Fisher wrote:
Good poets borrow, great poets steal. I rest by reading poems in other languages, and rorschach my way into phrasings which I dimly and dreamily understand. When, however, I find a poem which, it seems to me, could not be bettered in any way, and which in its entirety is of living importance, I often seek to translate. As a translator, I am a total conservative; I admire Ben Belitt's translations, but I would never 'better' Neruda or Lorca as he does, so that for example, Neruda's 'confusion of vegetables' becomes 'a bedlam of vegetables,' and in which meaning and number and order freely dissolve. My versions are as literal as I can get them. [9]
Josephine Miles wrote: "One great thing about David Fisher's poems—you must read them. Another great thing is—then you must read them again. Of few poets can this be said." [10]
W. S. Merwin wrote: "I've been reading and re-reading Teachings with pleasure, fascination, and admiration. And now The Book of Madness—clearly more penetrating, more troubling, and at once more capsized and more masterful." [10]
William Meredith wrote of I Hear Always the Dogs on the Hospital Roof: “The poems are direct and beautiful, and only afterwards terrifying: you find you have confronted things you might not have had the heart to confront in yourself and the world without this strong and gentle talent to invite you.” [10]
George Oppen wrote: "' . . . you will find me, love, in the streets'—this is the note and the scale and the image of those moving poems: the image that may save us who are now so profoundly endangered. For God's sake, read these poems." [11]
Paul Mariah, co-founder of Manroot Books, [12] wrote: "To David, his vocabulary was multilingual.... We can be arrested on almost every page of David's work; for his style, content, form. He has established himself as a ranking postmodernist surrealist poet."