In this extraordinary collection, Ann Fisher-Wirth looks levelly at mortality, grief, and memory, and reckons with what it is to be urgently alive, bringing her incisive nuance to subjects ranging from the loss of a beloved sister to Mississippis Parchman Penitentiary to our imperiled natural world to the comforts of marital love. In Wooden Comb, Fisher-Wirth writes, I cannot reconcile how the world is sweet, how the world is burning. Paradise Is Jagged is too wise a book to promise impossible reconciliation. Instead it offers a benediction of sorts: Walk with me through this difficult and tender place, it says. Willingly, gratefully, we do. -Catherine Pierce, Danger Days, 2021-2025 Mississippi Poet LaureateBook specifications:Collection: ReduxDimensions: 229 x 152Author: Ann Fisher-WirthCover type: PaperbackPublishing Year: 2023Publishing Month: 2Pages: 116Language: EnglishPublisher: Terrapin BooksWeight: 181 g