The House

Snow

Yellow Sky, Blue Earth

A Language of Stone

Waldo

Jeu De Paumes

Friends

Rain, Abboretum

1^st Divertissement

First Amusement

Le Cryptoscope

The Cryptoscope

Amenophis

The Woman

"Come In," she said. "Don't Smoke."

Why Do You Want To Suffer Less?

The Violin

The Bear

David Hall

Of The Paucity of Memory

In Opposition to Redevelopment

The Children Who I Have Instructed

Contributor's Notes

"Teachings … combines everything - the grand river tradition of poetry, your own sensibility, the present era, and language that acts." - Hayden Caruth (editor of The Voice Within Us: American Poetry Of The 20^th Century):

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TEACHINGS

Winner of the Poetry Society of America's "William Carlos Williams" award for the best book of poetry published by a small press, non-profit press or university press during the year 1978. Teachings was unanimously selected by judges Josephine Miles, Louis Simpson and Reed Whittemore.

David Fisher graduated summa cum laude from Duke University. He was in the Norwegian Merchant Marine, and speaks and translates a number of languages. He holds advanced degrees from Yale. A native North Carolinian, he now lives in San Francisco where he teaches a small writing workshop. Mr. Fisher's work has been widely published in journals. He authored "Requiem for Heurtebise: Homage to Jean Cocteau" (Manroot, 1974), a non-fiction account (With John William Clouser) of the life of a man on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for ten years called "The Most Wanted Man In America" (Stein and Day, 1975) and "The Book of Madness" (Gallimaufry, 1975). David Fisher underwent shock treatment in 1972.