Description: Imperfect Fit is a dynamic study of the relationships between modern art and avant-garde poetry from the 1950s to the present that provides fascinating glimpses into both Allen Fisher's remarkable work as a poet, painter, and critic, as well as the state of avant-garde aesthetics as a whole.
Review Quotes: "These extraordinary essays by poet and painter Allen Fisher are foundational texts for contemporary UK poetics. For more than thirty years, Fisher has developed highly original, practical aesthetics based on a deep understanding of physics and psychology as well as art history, poetics, and philosophy. His poetry and his art works have consistently explored the ethics and aesthetics of the interrelatedness of science, art, and everyday life. In this essential book, Fisher persuasively gives the arts new scale and relevance in a scientific era."
--Peter Middleton, author of The Inward Gaze: Masculinity and Subjectivity in Modern Culture and Distant Reading: Performance, Readership, and Consumption in Contemporary Poetry