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From the "vernal ponds" and "fishy/ vicissitudes" of everyday life laid bare by a charismatic imagination, and lyric intensity ala mode de Sappho, to the fictive "Bodies of muck. Bodies of water. Bodies/of love," Fifer's Caravaggio's Kimono swept me away to a Turkish sidewalk café, to the "steel/ wilderness" of his memory, to debts owed Gerald Stern and Tristan Tzara. I've dug into these purgatories, rifts, and gorges to climb back and trumpet the motley pleasures they gave this reader. Reader, you won't regret it. Climb aboard. -Roger Weingarten
About the author
Ken Fifer 's poetry collections include After Fire, Ash, Water Presents, The Moss That Rides on the Back of the Rock, and Falling Man. His poems have appeared in magazines and journals, including Barrow Street, New Letters, The Literary Review, and Ploughshares. He has a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from The University of Michigan. He has taught and read at conferences, poetry festivals, and universities, both nationally and internationally. There's no telling where he's been.
