The Blue Pine Table: Poems, Essays, and Stories - Paperback

by Rachel J. Fisher (Photographer), Loren R. Fisher (Author)

The Blue Pine Table features metaphorical poems that spring from daily living in the real world. It also contains a few essays and a short story, "Black Clam Beach." The present world provides material aspects for the metaphors. The blue pine table is my metaphor. The story behind it is also a metaphor. It moves us beyond what is describable and comprehensible. It takes us beyond our inadequate language and the literal but never all the way. Thus the metaphor remains forever alluring and beckoning. It can give birth to a new hope of clarity within a future horizon.

Author Biography

Loren R. Fisher taught at the School of Theology at Claremont and at the Claremont Graduate University. He is the author of "The Many Voices of Job," "Tales from Ancient Egypt," and "The Jerusalem Academy." Later he was a rancher in Round Valley, CA. He did not keep a journal, but he did write poems that recorded his response to his experiences and his thoughts relating to world events. He now lives in Medford, OR and continues his research and writing.