Water under Water - Softcover

Charles Adés Fishman is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of English & Humanities at Farmingdale State College, where he created the Visiting Writers Program in 1979 and the Distinguished Speakers Program in 2001. He was series editor of the Water Mark Poets of North America Book Award (1980-83) and has served as poetry editor of Gaia, Cistercian Studies Quarterly, Journal of Genocide Research, PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators, and New Works Review, and also as associate editor of The Drunken Boat (1999-2005) and poetry consultant to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. In 1995, Dr. Fishman received a fellowship in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts and in 2006, he was honored as "Long Island Poet of the Year" by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association. His books include Blood to Remember: American Poets on the Holocaust (2007) and Chopin's Piano (2006), each from Time Being Books; Country of Memory (Uccelli Press) and 5,000 Bells (Cross-Cultural Communications), both 2004; and The Death Mazurka (1989), a 1989 American Library Association "Outstanding Book of the Year" that was nominated for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize in poetry. Chopin's Piano received the 2007 Paterson Award for Literary Excellence.