Strange Land Poems

Poems, poetics, rants and ramblings from places other than home. Conversations about travel and exile, about learning to live and love other cultures, about learning to love one’s own life estranged from the familiar.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

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ON HIATUS!!

Sunday, January 8, 2012

Thomas Ades' Polaris--The Metaphor of Music

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Part of the wonder of classical music, for me, is attending its performance live—the small meal before, the glass of wine, the mo...

Saturday, December 31, 2011

2012! Finally

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So many things to be thankful for -- friends and lovers, decent eyesight, books, all of the books being written and read, Borges and Montale...

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Art as Something Other than Truth

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I want to start with a long quote from Maggie Nelson’s book The Art of Cruelty . This comes from a chapter in which she discusse...

Tuesday, November 1, 2011

The Quick Wit of Lydia Davis

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Last night, I heard the fiction writer, translator, poet Lydia Davis read her work at Johnson State College last night in Vermo...

Sunday, October 16, 2011

The Lemon Trees

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I just returned from a week in Florence. I am reeling. I am settled. Sometimes one must leave for a place the opposite of everything that is...

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About Sarah

Sarah Wetzel Fishman: Tel Aviv, Israel; I'm author of Bathsheba Transatlantic which won the 2009 Philip Levine Prize for Poetry. Overcoming an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and MBA from Berkeley, I completed a MFA from Bennington College in January 2009. Nominated for a Pushcart Prize, my work appears in Rattle, Barrow Street, Valparaiso, and others. I spent a lot of time on planes between Tel Aviv and Manhattan.

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