David Fisher

David Fisher Sacramento, CA - David Lincoln Fisher, 72, internationally known, award winning poet, died Feb. 2, 2015. Fisher was a graduate of Rolesville, NC, high school and graduated summa cum laude from Duke University on an Angier B. Duke scholarship. He later completed course work for a doctorate at Yale University on a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. He had further studies at the University of Tubingen and the Sorbonne. Fisher taught college courses in English and poetry in the San Francisco Bay area for many years. He published several books of his poetry and received two National Foundation for the Arts fellowships. He was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for "The Book of Madness" and won the first annual Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams award for the best book of poetry in America (1978) for his book "Teachings". Fisher's last work, "I Hear Always the Dogs on the Hospital Roof", a collection of his poetry, was published in 2012 by the William Meredith Foundation. He is survived by his brother Hugh Fisher (Serena Parks Fisher) of Winter Springs, FL and his niece Elizabeth Fisher Goad (Dean Goad) of Okinawa, Japan. He was predeceased by his father the Rev. Ben C. Fisher and mother Sara Gehman Fisher. Memorial gifts may be made to the William Meredith Foundation, 337 Kitemaug Road, Uncasville, CT 06382.