Lisa Fishmans latest collection One Big Time is a stunning articulation of the authorampampamp8217s ampampquotjourneyinplaceampampquot in the environs around a oneroom cabin in Northeastern Ontario over a period of fourteen days in quarantine.Here is the author at her most exacting and exploratory in poems that hew with lyric precision to the immediate physical and geologic environment. At the same time language is an alert mobile lifeform in active investigation of what one thinks one understands and of where one thinks one is. While the poet quests daily for a passageway from one body of water into another words live in other words ampampamp8220the hemlock is a he todayampampamp8221 and acrostics are illuminations swim is ampampamp8220sleek widening instantampampamp8217s magnet.ampampamp8221 Surprised by joy these biocentric poems offer a way of being in the world with wonder and rigorampampamp8211attentive enough to be lost unknowing enough to be changed.