Mary Crow

Posted October 25, 2003

Mary Crow is the author of ten books, five volumes of poetry and five of translation. Her most recent collection of poems is The High Cost of Living (Pudding House, 2002) which won the Looking [...]

Forest

The unwritten poem that mocks the word paralyzes my hand above the blank paper. Once more my head is a forest and my hand is an insect monstrosity plays with and from language itself the words [...]

There is no Narcissus to speak of

When you’re 52 the mirror is the other. There’s no Narcissus to speak of, no passion in seeing oneself in the other. The water in the pond is pitiless, finally hard as a bad snapshot, [...]