Liberal Arts Faculty Books
Title
The Bones of Winter Birds
Files
Description
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. As Fisher-Wirth praises, laments, lets go, language salvages what might otherwise be missed. It’s with attentiveness and emotional poise that these poems lay everything bare. Despite fear and everyday darkness, “I think we are provided for” she reminds us, a consolation for which I am grateful. This is a beautiful book.—Shara Lessley
ISBN
9781947896116
Publication Date
2019
Relational Format
book
Department
English
Publisher
Terrapin Books
Disciplines
Poetry
Recommended Citation
Fisher-Wirth, Ann, "The Bones of Winter Birds" (2019). Liberal Arts Faculty Books. 25.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/libarts_book/25