The Fisher King

By: Tamás, Rebecca

In this mesmeric retelling of The Fisher King, celebrated poet and essayist Rebecca Tam s makes a call for attention to and connection with the natural world.

In Rebecca Tam s's remarkable second poetry collection, a grieving, unnamed narrator walks a broken hero's journey through green woods and coastlines, accompanied by the elusive figure of the Fisher King, who nurses his own wound. Along the way, a litany of thinkers--from Anne Carson to St. Silouan the Athonite to John Berger--act as guides and interlocutors.

Drawing on medieval story cycles and giving them a contemporary, intertextual spin, The Fisher King is an avid capturing of the splinters of time and light, and a singing document calling for the knowledge of humans' interconnectedness with other beings, history, and the future. How, the book asks, can we "be apart, but closely?"

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1998336409
• ISBN13: 9781998336401
• Release Date: January 2027
• Publisher: Assembly Press
• Length: 108 Pages