Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Roy Fisher on Location
- 2 ‘Menacing Works in my Isolation’: Early Pieces
- 3 TheWork of a Left-Handed Man
- 4 Osmotic Investigations and Mutant Poems: An Americanist Poetic
- 5 ‘Making Forms with Remarks’: The Prose
- 6 Cutting-Edge Poetics: Roy Fisher's ‘Language Book’
- 7 A Burning Monochrome: Fisher's Block
- 8 ‘The Secret Laugh of the World’
- 9 ‘Exhibiting Unpreparedness’: Self, World, and Poetry
- 10 ‘Coming into their Own’: Roy Fisher and John Cowper Powys
- 11 A Furnace and the Life of the Dead
- 12 Last Things
- Roy Fisher: A Bibliography
- Indexes
Frontmatter
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Roy Fisher on Location
- 2 ‘Menacing Works in my Isolation’: Early Pieces
- 3 TheWork of a Left-Handed Man
- 4 Osmotic Investigations and Mutant Poems: An Americanist Poetic
- 5 ‘Making Forms with Remarks’: The Prose
- 6 Cutting-Edge Poetics: Roy Fisher's ‘Language Book’
- 7 A Burning Monochrome: Fisher's Block
- 8 ‘The Secret Laugh of the World’
- 9 ‘Exhibiting Unpreparedness’: Self, World, and Poetry
- 10 ‘Coming into their Own’: Roy Fisher and John Cowper Powys
- 11 A Furnace and the Life of the Dead
- 12 Last Things
- Roy Fisher: A Bibliography
- Indexes
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- The Thing About Roy FisherCritical Studies, pp. i - ivPublisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 2000