About the Poet

Norman Fischer
Norman Fischer is a Zen Buddhist priest and abbot. He has also published prose and poetry since the 1970's. His latest prose book is Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls. (Simon and Schuster, 2008). His latest poetry collection is I Was Blown Back (Singing Horse Press, 2005). Norman is the founding teacher of the Everyday Zen Foundation.
Poems in the Broadside... Twelve Homeless Poems




Editor's Note:

A while ago, Norman read a few of the poems from I Was Blown Back at a Buddhist seminar. Afterwards, I heard someone ask him about the process of making a book. He said that there are often poems that don’t fit in the present book and are left behind. Some poems are left behind repeatedly, book after book. Immediately I wanted us to publish some of those misfit, outsider, homeless poems. He kindly sent twelve of them. We think they fit with each other quite well, and are happy to have given them a home.