Mississippi: Poems Ann Fisher-Wirth & Photography Maude Schuyler Clay
Mississippi By Ann Fisher-Wirth and Maude Schuyler Clay. Wings Press, 2018.
Mississippi is Ann Fisher-Wirth’s fifth book of poems; it is a poetry/photography collaboration with the acclaimed Delta photographer Maude Schuyler Clay. 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 ...