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Paradise Is Jagged, by Ann Fisher-Wirth

Congratulations to Ann who is the recipient of a 2023 Governor's Arts Award from the Mississippi Arts Commission for Excellence in Literature and Poetry.

Praise for Paradise Is Jagged
In this extraordinary collection, Ann Fisher-Wirth looks levelly at mortality, grief, and memory, and reckons with what it is to be urgently alive, bringing her incisive nuance to subjects ranging from the loss of a beloved sister to Mississippi’s Parchman Penitentiary to our imperiled natural world to the comforts of marital love. In “Wooden Comb,” Fisher-Wirth writes, “I cannot reconcile how the world is sweet, how the world is burning.” Paradise Is Jagged is too wise a book to promise impossible reconciliation. Instead it offers a benediction of sorts: Walk with me through this difficult and tender place, it says. Willingly, gratefully, we do.  
    —Catherine Pierce, Danger Days, 2021-2025 Mississippi Poet Laureate
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Ann Fisher-Wirth is the author of six previous books of poetry, including The Bones of Winter Birds (Terrapin Books, 2019) and Mississippi, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay (Wings Press, 2018). With Laura-Gray Street, she coedited The Ecopoetry Anthology (Trinity UP, 2013). Her awards include three Mississippi Arts Commission Poetry Fellowships and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize. She has had residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, The Mesa Refuge, Camac/France, and Storyknife, and was the 2017 Anne Spencer Poet in Residence at Randolph College. In 1994-1995 she taught on a Fulbright award at Fribourg, Switzerland, and in 2002-2003 she was Fulbright Distinguished Chair of American Studies at Uppsala, Sweden. Recently she coedited a collection of eco-writing and eco-art from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Oceania, and the American South with Laura-Gray Street and regional editors Mildred Barya, Esther Vincent, Juan Carlos Galeano, and Craig Santos Perez, for the journal The Global South. A senior fellow and board member of the Black Earth Institute, she is newly retired from the University of Mississippi, where she taught in the MFA program and directed the Environmental Studies program. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.
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www.annfisherwirth.com

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  • Forthcoming
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    • Redux Series
    • Poetry Books >
      • NEW—Michael Hettich
      • NEW—Kiyoko Reidy
      • NEW—Jin Cordaro
      • NEW—Annette Sisson
      • NEW—Timothy Geiger
      • NEW—Jacqueline Berger
      • NEW—Hayden Saunier
      • NEW—J.L. Conrad
      • Tom C. Hunley
      • Heather Swan
      • Saba Husain
      • Helena Mesa
      • Kathy Nelson
      • Andrea Hollander
      • The Animals of My Earth School, by Mildred Barya
      • Flatback Sally Country, by Rachel Custer
      • This Strange Garment, by Nicole Callihan
      • Paradise Is Jagged, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
      • Leave Me a Little Want, by Beverly Burch
      • Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
      • The Night Divers, by Melanie McCabe
      • light waves, by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
      • Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
      • Design, by Theresa Burns
      • House Bird, by Robb Fillman
      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
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      • The Strategic Poet
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
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      • What the House Knows
      • A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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