“[W]e don't know with certainty that reality has been given limitless time. Norman Fischer's urgent sensitivity to the metamorphoses at hand makes his writing real.” — Lyn Hejinian
Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press (October 1, 1987)
“Incandescently tranquil, the poems of Norman Fischer neither confront nor confirm, preferring to give company along the way.”
“Those of us who think about the reality of things do not do so because we have plenty of time. Reality is not a fixed and immutable attribute of things but a process, a fast or slow unfolding. And we don’t know with certainty that reality has been given limitless time. Norman Fischer’s urgent sensitivity to the metamorphoses at hand makes his writing real.”