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Announcing the 2006 recipient of the prestigious Yale Younger Poets prize Jessica Fisher’s Frail-Craft is winner of the 2006 Yale Series of Younger Poets competition and judge Louise Glück’s fourth selection for the series. The book and the dream are the poet’s primary objects of investigation here. Through deft, quietly authoritative lyrics, Fisher meditates on the problems and possibilities—the frail craft—of perception for the reader, the dreamer, maintaining that “if the eye can love—and it can, it does—then I held you and was held.” In her foreword to the book, Louise Glück writes that Fisher’s poetry is “haunting, elusive, luminous, its greatest mystery how plain-spoken it is. Sensory impressions, which usually serve as emblems of or connections to emotion, seem suddenly in this work a language of mind, their function neither metonymic nor dramatic. They are like the dye with which a scientist injects his specimen, to track some response or behavior. Fisher uses the sense this way, to observe how being is converted into thinking.”

Cook for a week, or two weeks or even more, in just a few hours in the kitchen--and have incredibly delicious, completely nutritious meals waiting for you when you need them. Are the demands of work and family cutting into the time you have available for weekday cooking? Join the meal-prep revolution that is taking home kitchens by storm By setting aside time on a Saturday or Sunday, you can prep anywhere from three or four to ten or fifteen make-ahead meals. But to be the best meal-prepper you can be, your most important tool is your freezer--for the simple reason that food won't keep for long in the refrigerator. The more you freeze, the more meals you can make ahead. Find all the recipes, tips, and tricks you need for meal-prep success in Simple and Delicious Make Ahead and Freeze Recipes. Author Jessica Fisher, mom of six, lives the meal-prep lifestyle and distills her busy-mom-in-the-kitchen wisdom on her popular blog Good Cheap Eats. In this book she reveals, in recipes not available on her blog, the tastiest, easiest-to-make, most money-saving, and, most importantly, most freezer-friendly recipes in her considerable arsenal. They include: Potatoes Au Gratin with Ham and Gruyere Lemon-Tarragon Fish Fillets Sweet and Sour Teriyaki Chicken Beef Taquitos Casserole-Style Pasta Bake with Thyme and Sun-Dried Tomatoes Smoky Vegetarian Chili Spiced Pumpkin Custards Includes many, many more cost-saving recipes for incredible breakfasts, lunches, and dinners; meal-planning charts; advice on how to cook in batches in the least time possible; and helpful lists of freezer-storage dos and don'ts. Take the stress out of weekday cooking with Simple and Delicious Make Ahead and Freeze Recipes.

A meditation on art’s longevity and the brevity of human life from the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of Frail-Craft and Inmost.Jessica Fisher brings “the faraway close,” through ruthless yet tender interrogations of possibility and permanence. Set against the backdrop of the fallen empire of Rome, Daywork takes its title from the giornata—the name in fresco painting for the section of wet plaster that can be painted in a single day, where each “day” is marked by the hidden seams in a finished painting.In a voice that is as poised as it is unmistakably urgent, Fisher aims to uncover what adheres against the fabric of history, and what becomes effaced over time. Her search leads her to discover signs of ruin of a different kind, and her poems begin to coalesce around a single perilous realization: that time is not merely an agent of erasure. Time is also a tether, rendering violence, beauty, grief, and art separate merely by a matter of days. “So you see once again,” she writes, “violence is to beauty / as the warp to the weft / always somewhere beneath.”Like the fresco itself, Daywork is committed to a time- and site-specific art, and to the daily work of creation. At once an elegiac meditation and a brave unearthing, this book expertly discerns the monumentalizing portrayals of history and its violences, while boldly illuminating other crucial accounts of everyday existence.

Jessica Fisher's second book of poems brings lyric's intensity of perception to an era of global war while chronicling the everyday motions of new motherhood. In this elegant and elusive work, the inmost moves outward, like sight or voice, into the external world.