An Exaltation of Tongues

<p>“The way Paul Fisher sees the world and writes about it is pure delight! <em>An Exaltation of Tongues<strong> </strong></em>is full of astounding images and the wisdom of his shaman voice – ‘<em>from the green blood of grass / to the moon's missing half.</em>’ I love the nuances the leaping alchemical word magic and the vision in these poems – ‘<em>sweet as stolen honey / ladled from the Great Bear's tongue.</em>’ I love the way his poems leap between worlds and the transparency of emotion is stunning. Every line has the magic I have come to enjoy in Paul Fisher’s writing.”</p><p>~ Diane Frank Author of <em>Canon for Bears and Ponderosa Pines</em></p><p> </p><p>“Paul Fisher’s <em>An Exaltation of Tongues</em> is accessible and then unusual for it does not receive a spirit speaking in tongues unknowable and nourished somehow on high . . . Authority instead is given with such a light touch – to ‘my tongue’; to ‘your burnt tongue’; to ‘double-edged” and ‘severed tongues’. His poetry sustains affirmation in an unaffirming unsustainable world.”</p><p>~ Judith Hall author of <em>The Promised Folly</em></p><p> </p>