C. Francis Fisher
C. Francis Fisher is a poet and translator. Her first book of translations, In the Glittering Maw: Selected Poems of Joyce Mansour, appeared with World Poetry Books in 2024. She has been supported by fellowships from Yaddo and the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Her work has appeared in the Yale Review, the Adroit Journal, and the Los Angeles Review of Books among others.
As soon as I try to write any statement about James Loop’s writing, I realize one must also say the direct opposite. He is slippery like that, muscling against any singular school of thought or type of being like a fractal shining through a kaleidoscope onto a white wall, always shifting. And lucky are we that his work is also that beautiful.
This February, Semiotext(e) reissued Lee & Elaine, one of her two novels, originally published in 2002. Despite the contemporary tone Rower achieves, this couldn’t have been written today.
