The Isotope of I
(By Connor Fisher)
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"The poetic mind no longer mired in a former phase of itself strikes out as first beginning freshly scripting itself. This becomes more and more evident as the poetic mind ranges into an emergent lingual galaxy as it profoundly experiences itself during its insistent stay on Earth. The old braggadocio fortified by pre-planned evidence of findings cannot sustain chronic verbal suffocation according to self-coded certainty. When Connor Fisher enunciates “I am already someone else...” in his debut collection, The Isotope of I, he begins to tap into spontaneous lingual ease."
- Will Alexander
"In the surrealist tradition, exuberance and extremity serve the revolutionary rejection of reason and conformity. “I hurled my glands onto the zealous cushion,” writes Connor Fisher, with all the fearless verve of the ongoing movement he so energetically grabs hold of. Even at his most lyrical, he invites the “marvelous” to proliferate; creatures—birds, insects, dogs—are yanked from dreamscapes into the “consumerist” daylight. These poems unsettle, disturb, and haunt the real by refusing the actual. You will recognize your face in this ghoulish, fantastical, and endlessly imaginative reflection of our time and place, in this Isotope of I."
- Julie Carr
"Connor Fisher’s The Isotope of I emits a series of intimate variants that recalibrate the reader’s senses. Its endlessly opening eyes have invented an ecosystem of slowly exploding declaratives. Its propositions pulse like wingbeats. I have loved these pages like a bowerbird loves the brightest leaves on the forest floor."
- Eric Baus
"What are these poems like? Imagine if Ludwig Tieck had been a surrealist sleeping on the ground of a forest, heavy with the weight of his several pronouns. Feel the mass of “I” become heavier on each page, weighed down by the “hydrogen glitter” of an image. Watch each noun float in the breath's light as it “wavers in imaginary wind.”"
- Magdalena Zurawski”
