"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 ..."
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, ..."