"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 ..."
Post Green Literature, Culture, and the Environment by Murali Sivaramakrishnan, Animesh Roy Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2023 by Lexington Books ISBN-13: 978-1-66694-790-8, ISBN: 1-66694-790-3
Dream Cabinet 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 ..."
"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."
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