Fake Moon

Author: Alban Fischer

Publisher: The Magnificent Field (2020)

“The speculative interruptions of this collection of organs—renamed, repurposed and disguised as a book of poems—sculpt the shape between varied and intimate utterances. It is cruel and consoling, internal, viscous, full and delicate.”

–Stephanie Barber

“There’s delirium and there’s / the world... Like waking inside a psychedelic noir, Fake Moon is a missive of strange reporting on the human condition. After a shave, in Fischer’s world, I’d be hesitant to look in the mirror, dive in the pool water. Fake or not, this moon’s pull is very real.”

–Eric Amling

“Go ahead. Put your ear to this mysterious keyhole, this haunted attic telephone, this intoxicating outer space radio program. Fake Moon by Alban Fischer is not just another ordinary book. It is like a brand new day that everyone should be thrilled to explore."

–Kyle Flak

“‘It happens,’ writes Alban Fischer, ‘strange words get shut away in the chest, / in the lungs.’ They do, but here, in his ardent and morbid debut collection Fake Moon, he sets those words free across poems that are both painstakingly quotidian and mind-breakingly expressive. To spend some time in their glitterbomb weather is to dwell delightfully in a reflective and self-reflexive state of curiosity and reckoning.”

–Kathleen Rooney