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"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 represent long, complicated accumulations and recombinations of visual and linguistic experience.
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About the Author
Maude Schuyler Clay was born in Greenwood, Mississippi. After attending the University of Mississippi and the Memphis Academy of Arts, she assisted the photographer William Eggleston. Her photographs have appeared in publications such as Esquire, Fortune, and Vanity Fair, and are included in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The National Museum for Women in the Arts, and the High Museum, Atlanta, among others. Ann Fisher-Wirth holds a Ph.D. in English and American literature from Claremont Graduate School. Fisher-Wirth has held Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden.
Review
"... the visual images are beautiful if we just look around—inside and especially outside in nature. These poems are in the voices of women and men, and while they seem to catch the tone of these unknown common folk, they are more soliloquies than the poetry encountered in the earlier, elegant books by Fisher-Wirth. Yet, the voices are right for this book, because they feel as real as the photographic images of country life. Both artists have lived in the state long enough to know its history, landscapes, and people." —Robert Bonazzi, San Antonio Express-News
"Mississippi is a forty-seven-part poem; each part paired with a different photograph... the speaker is a collective consciousness, mostly many specific voices, reminiscent of William Carlos Williams in his epic poem, Paterson... Fisher-Wirth's poems offer us a complex artifact: a palimpsest of human and natural history written on the damaged landscapes we see pictured in each haunting photograph. Through her poems and Clay's photographs we see a deep view of Mississippi that we may have never been able to see... Mississippi is a poem about place; but also, a poem about listening to the palimpsest of voices (the natural and the human) that have lived in that place." —Iris Jamahl Dunkle, http://poetryflash.org/
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- PublisherWings Press
- Publication date2018
- ISBN 10 1609405609
- ISBN 13 9781609405601
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages112
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Hard Cover. Condition: VG to Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clay, Maude Schuyler, Photographer (illustrator). The publisher bills itself as producing ". Fine multicultural literature since 1975." The author of the poems was born in Washington, D.C. and lived as a child in Germany, Pennsylvania, Japan and Berkeley, California. Both the poems and the photography are strange, gloomy and depressing, apparently representing the disdain and contempt of the artists for the state of Mississippi. Unlike the poet, the photographer was actually born in the state of Mississippi. Leftwing Environmental Poetry. Seller Inventory # 77206
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. This gorgeous large-format hardback features 47 poems and 47 color photographs that explore the history, culture, and ecology of the state of Mississippi. The epigraph for the book is taken from Theodore Roethke's "North American Sequence": "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 represent long, complicated accumulations and recombinations of visual and linguistic experience. In her recent memoir The Faraway Nearby, the environmental writer Rebecca Solnit writes: "A place is a story, and stories are geography, and empathy is first of all an act of imagination, a storyteller's art, and then a way of traveling from here to there." Mississippi suffers from severe environmental degradation that cannot be separated from its history of poverty and racial oppression. Yet the state also possesses great natural beauty and a rich and complex culture, one interwoven from the many voices that have made up its identity. Mississippi explores both this degradation and this beauty. The poems are explorations of voice in its Mississippi plenitude and variety, honoring the voices, no matter whose they are, whether white or African American, and exploring the rich orality of Mississippi culture. With one exception, the beautiful, haunting photographs do not depict people, but, rather, swamps, fields, trees, lakes, empty chairs, dilapidated buildings. They work with the poems to offer the spirit of place. Features 47 poems and 47 colour photographs that explore the history, culture, and ecology of the state of Mississippi. The epigraph for the book is taken from Theodore Roethke's ""North American Sequence"": ""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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781609405601
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