Ann Fisher-Wirth | Author

Ann Fisher-Wirth
Poet/Scholar

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2009

Carta Marina

From Wings Press: Ann Fisher-Wirth began Carta after a phone conversation with her daughter, Jessica Fisher, who is also a poet. As the author describes it: I was telling her about this wonderful map I had discovered at the Carolina Museum in Uppsala, and she said, "Write poems about the map." "Oh," I replied, "I might write a poem about it," and...

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Dec.03.2009 - 6:19 pm

In response to: Best Gift Book

Then, Something

Patricia Fargnoli's new book of poems from Tupelo Press, Then, Something, is such a wise and beautiful collection, with...

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Poem: December 18 (from CARTA MARINA)

Poem: 1928. Girl Riding

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Carta Marina

Published by Country Dog Review

Through the searingly beautiful triptych of poems which make up Carta Marina, the reader follows Ann Fisher-Wirth as she plays the part of cartographer, attempting to label,...

About Ann

Ann Fisher-Wirth is the author of three books of poetry, Carta Marina (Wings Press, 2009), Five Terraces (Wind Publications, 2005), and Blue Window (Archer Books, 2003). She has also published two chapbooks, Walking Wu-Wei's Scroll (Drunken Boat [online],...

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Causes Ann Fisher-Wirth Supports

Greenpeace, Sierra Club, Nature Conservancy, Oxfam

Ann Fisher-WirthPoet/Scholar