ISBN 978-0-9981272-5-5 (5.5” x 8.5”, 96 pp, paperback, signed)
Published by The Magnificent Field

“‘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, author of Lillian Boxfish Take a Walk and Cher Ami and Major Whittlesey

“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, author of Trial in the Woods

“‘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, author of From the Author’s Private Collection

“The poems in this book feel like those mornings you step out the door or open a window and the new day hits you with a sudden preciousness. With heavy doses of catachresis and syntactic defamiliarization, it’s a book that celebrates the strangeness in everyday minutiae. The rooms of these poems’ stanzas live up to Gertrude Stein’s call for ‘more choice in everything,’ and ‘a wideness [that] makes an active center.’” 

—Joe Sacksteder, author of Driftless Quintet and Make/Shift

“At some point, some press called Fischer to make a beautiful book, and you admired that book because of the poems of course, but also because of that design. But the dude also writes poems, good ones in fact, funny ones, with gravitas and insight, and they show a wonderful mind at work and play.” 

—Michael Sikkema, author of You’ve Got a Pretty Hellmouth

“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.”

—Kyle Flak, author of Sweatpants Paradise

“The moon, Alban Fischer reminds us, is a spectacular counterfeit. An imagined diamond. Reading these poems is like holding a gorgeous, melting filmstrip in your hands, daylight shining through the not-yet-real. They press against the narrowing limits of Time, the image, and the ‘too-logical margins of the page.’ If Breton wanted a convulsive beauty, it’s buried in here, standing at your doorstep, draped in a magisterial painting like ghost costume.” 

—Marty Cain, author of Kids of the Black Hole