Mary Karr’s books of poems include Viper
Run (Penguin, 2000) and The Devil’s Tour (New
Directions, 1993). In 2001 she published the introduction to the
Modern Library’s editon of The Waste Land. She is
the Jesse Truesdell Peck Professor of Literature at Syracuse University.
Poetry
Spring 2003
This Lesson You’ve Got
to learn is the someday you’ll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine head in the yoke they’ve shaped. Everyone learns this. […]
Poetry
Spring 2003
Preparatory Science Fair
There are the fathers lithe as young cheetahs, who fashioned their bodies with cardio and no carbs, whose shoes once were reptiles. They differ in fiber from this nearly dead […]