Author: Marcia Karp
Marcia Karp’s poems and translations have appeared in Oxford Magazine, the Times Literary Supplement, the Warwick Review, Ploughshares, Harvard Review, Agenda, Literary Imagination, Seneca Review, the Guardian, the Republic of Letters, and Partisan Review. Her work is also included in the anthologies: Penguin Books’ Catullus in English and Petrarch in English, Joining Music with Reason: 34 Poets, British and American, Oxford 2004–2009 (Waywiser, 2010), and The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Norton, 2010).
What is Left
We think it is new. We are so, so afraid. We think there has never been, ever been, a thing like our thing. So, we are so afraid. Just think. A village rapes a girl. A village burns a man. Here is the maelstrom. Here is the horror. People we like are like people we …
Of Fools
I saw it that way from the couch— the many-masted ship of ivy in the bottle of the world with sprays of laurel rising behind— as we argued the message of luck come to me, for fortune had tost, this time, her waves my way. Jealousy overwhelmed your staunchness, then you overcounted the bounty. And …