Ann Fisher-Wirth
Ann Fisher-Wirth’s sixth book of poems is The Bones of Winter Birds. Mississippi, her fifth, is a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay. With Laura-Gray Street, Ann coedited The Ecopoetry Anthology. A senior fellow of Black Earth Institute, she was 2017 poet-in-residence at Randolph College, and has had numerous residencies as well as Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden. A professor of English, she directs the environmental studies program at the University of Mississippi.
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Persimmons
My sister said, I would like to write about these persimmons but I can’t because I died. Along the street they hung, glossy and taut among the leaves, all of light in their red-orange flesh, like breasts, like buttocks or wombs swollen with sun, with desire, those sexy fruits that she loved, […]
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On “Persimmons”
Ann Fisher-Wirth explores haunting, wholeness, and the process of dying in her essay on “Persimmons.”