Ceive - Softcover

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

B.K. Fischer is the author of Ceive (BOA, 2021) and four previous books of poetry: Radioapocrypha (Mad Creek Books, 2018), which won the 2018 The Journal/Wheeler Prize; My Lover’s Discourse (Tinderbox, 2018); St. Rage’s Vault (The Word Works, 2013), which won the Washington Prize; and Mutiny Gallery (Truman State University Press, 2011), winner of the 2011 T.S. Eliot Prize. She is also the author of the critical study Museum Mediations: Reframing Ekphrasis in Contemporary American Poetry (Routledge, 2006). Her poems and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The Paris Review, Kenyon Review, Boston Review, Jacket2, FIELD, WSQ, Ninth Letter, Blackbird, Los Angeles Review of Books, Modern Language Studies, and elsewhere. Fischer holds a BA from the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University, an MFA in poetry from Columbia University, and a PhD in English and American Literature from New York University. A former poetry editor of Boston Review, she teaches The Comma Sutra, a course on grammar and syntax for creative practice, in the School of the Arts at Columbia University. She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York with her husband and three children.

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Preconceive

Val, don’t forget about
Type-one conditionality,
a habitual occurrence: if

it rains heavily, the valley
floods. Val, don’t deny
type-two conditionality,

a likely occurrence: if it
rains heavily, the valley
will flood. Don’t be sur–

prized if it turns out to be
type-three conditionality,
hypotheticals: if

the whole world flooded,
I would build an ark. Val,
you’ve known all along

God regretted he made
human beings on the earth
and was deeply troubled.

If you leave here now
you will never know
how high the water gets.

As the waters increase
they will bear up the ark
and the waters prevail.