"Like "sunlight stroking the birds' throats so it comes out as song," Ann Fisher-Wirth's graceful and sturdy lines unsettle the seemingly familiar. A writer of moral gravity, her distilled attentiveness presses against our all-too-common ambivalence and detachment from the ordinary world. Whether set in Mississippi, California, the Ozarks, or France, the poems in The Bones of Winter Birdsexhibit an abundance of compassion and civility. A ..."
""The imperishable quiet at the heart of form." This quietness to be found by contemplating the photographs of Maude Schuyler Clay was at the heart of Ann Fisher-Wirth's poetic process, which involved listening — listening to the voices that spoke their stories somehow in connection, however oblique, with the photographs. Clay is a seventh-generation Mississippian; Fisher-Wirth has lived there for 30 years, so the images and words repres ..."
Dream Cabinet(First Edition) by AnnFisher-Wirth Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2012 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916727-93-2, ISBN: 0-916727-93-9
"A compilation of poetry of great beauty and searing honesty, this book consists of two long experimental sequences: the title poem “Dream Cabinet,” set on an island in Sweden, and an eloquent account of the poet’s first marriage entitled “Answers I Did Not Give to the Annulment Questionnaire.” Exploring the full cycle of human life, this collection responds to compelling personal, political, and environmental issues of modern times whil ..."
Carta Marina(1st Edition) A Poem in Three Parts by AnnFisher-Wirth Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Wings Press Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-916727-56-7, ISBN: 0-916727-56-4
"A vivid, strange, and beautiful account of a year in Sweden, this poem represents the ways in which wildness and monstrousness, dream and terror, coexist forever with constructions of order. Inspired by a medieval map of the same name, the poem weaves the gloom of the author’s forgotten past with the pain and pleasures of her present life, creating a treatise on motherhood, marriage, love, forgiveness, reconnection, and abandonment."
Five Terraces(1st Edition) by AnnFisher-Wirth Paperback, 132 Pages, Published 2005 by Wind Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-893239-44-9, ISBN: 1-893239-44-6
"Fisher-Wirth's second full-length collection of poetry. She has been described stylistically as realist and a modernist who writes with intelligence and passion."
Blue Window(1st Edition) Poems by AnnFisher-Wirth Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2003 by Archer Books ISBN-13: 978-1-931122-15-3, ISBN: 1-931122-15-6
"Definitive and daring, "The Ecopoetry Anthology" is the authoritative collection of contemporary American poetry about nature and the environment--in all its glory and challenge. From praise to lament, the work covers the range of human response to an increasingly complex and often disturbing natural world and inquires of our human place in a vastness beyond the human. To establish the antecedents of today's writing, "The Ecopoetry Anth ..."
"Nature writers know that to be fully human is to be engaged with our natural surroundings. Elemental South is a gathering of works by some of the region's best nature writers―people who can coax from words the mysteries of our place in the landscape and the human relationship to wildness.Arranged by theme according to the basic elements by which many cultures on earth interpret ―earth, air, fire, water―the writings consider our actual a ..."
Mississippi by AnnFisher-Wirth 112 Pages, Published 2018 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60940-561-8, ISBN: 1-60940-561-7
"broadsides printed by Daniel Uncapher of Ridge & Furrow Press, in Water Valley,
Mississippi, with accompanying photographs by Maude Schuyler Clay, in Spring
2016. The exhibition traveled to the Cultural Arts Center, Clarksdale, ..."
"... intelligence, his patience, his critical and proofreading skills, and his capacity
to have his nose in a book and his hands in the dirt. ... —Laura-Gray Street A. R.
Ammons, “Corsons Inlet” and “Gravelly Run” from Collected Poems 1951– 1971.
... Inc., on behalf of the author, and Carcanet Press, Ltd. “Alcove” and “River of the
Canoefish” from Planisphere: New Poems. ... Reprinted by permission of
HarperCollins Publishers and Ca ..."
"Each issue of "Fairy Tale Review" contains poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that either addresses the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. The "FTR" is, according to editor Kate Bernheimer, 'a venue for all writers working with the aesthetics and motifs of fairy tales'. "Fairy Tale Review"'s first three issues - "The Blue Issue" (2005), "The ..."
Carta Marina A Poem in Three Parts by AnnFisher-Wirth 96 Pages, Published 2009 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60940-087-3, ISBN: 1-60940-087-9
"—Jane Hirshfield, author ofAfter and Given Sugar; Given Salt A thrilling journey though the Swedish landscape and the memories of a past love affair, Ann Fisher -Wirth's long poem-diary is a tribute to the joys and sorrows, the wonders and ..."
Paradise Is Jagged (Redux) by Fisher-Wirth, Ann Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2023 by Terrapin Books ISBN-13: 978-1-947896-60-4, ISBN: 1-947896-60-1
"Ann Fisher-Wirth looks levelly at mortality, grief, and memory, and reckons with what it is to be urgently alive..."
"Each issue of "Fairy Tale Review" contains poetry, fiction, and nonfiction that either address the abiding influence of fairy tales on contemporary literature and culture, or are themselves contemporary fairy tales in prose or verse. It is, according to editor Kate Bernheimer, 'a venue for all writers working with the aesthetics and motifs of fairy tales'. "Fairy Tale Review's" first four issues ("The Blue Issue, 2005"; "The Green Issue ..."
"Following the success of 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café' volumes I, II, and III, we are pleased to serve up another hearty helping of Southern writing in this fourth edition. Offering the best in contemporary Southern fiction, from a tale inspired by a sculpture to another written by a popular Nashville singer and songwriter, along with essays by Pulitzer Prize winners and poems by up-and-comers, 'Stories from the Blue Moon Café IV' p ..."
"The Chapbook No. 5 includes The Crux of Our Great Misunderstanding by Matt Hart; First, earth by Ann Fisher-Wirth; Vats by Luke Daly; My Far-Shooting Apollo by Joanna Grant; My Glass Terrace the Hinterland by Bonnie Jean Michalski; Kontakion by Patti White; A Primer for the Icarian Arts by Carey Scott Wilkerson; To When Tea Ties Hence to Wank It Too and Eminent Means of Basil Dado Hem-Welt by Volodymyr Bilyk."