Blue Window

(Archer Books, 2003)

• Many American poets have written what gets called ‘the autobiographical lyric.’ Very few poets have written it with such fierce and stinging accuracy. [Ann Fisher-Wirth] is, stylistically, a realist and a modernist. Like William Carlos Williams . . . she can be a little headlong, perhaps a little ruthless, and that quality gives this book, which also has the virtues of tenderness and attentiveness, its steel and its nerve.

—Robert Hass

• Sweet, rank, proud, precise, unafraid of either deep pain or deep joy, these poems remind me of horses in a pasture, always aware of their power and grace, even in report, and always, completely natural. It is not just the poet who is acutely alive, in this work, but, somehow, the poems themselves.

—Rick Bass