Preparatory to writing this introduction, I asked Marion Sue Fischer to describe what her poetry is about. We had a long conversation about her history, watching the world turn over the past few decades. At first, she said, she couldn’t stand what was going on; then she couldn’t even understand it. Finally, she found what she calls a back-door faith, born of desperation. Faith enables her to write compelling poems for the streets, for relationships, to friends, lovers, the land, the city – and for the spirit and absence of spirit in our lives. ...