We are pleased to announce the publication of Mary Ann Samyn’s brilliant, funny, elegiac The Return from Calvary!
Join us in congratulating Mary Ann. The Return from Calvary will appear in the fall of 2025. This is the second book by Mary Ann we have published (go to Our Books and see Air, Light Dust, Shadow, Distance)!! We are thrilled to be bringing you The Return from Calvary!
More info below, including a sample poem from the volume.
Mary Ann Samyn has published six books of poetry, including Air, Light, Dust, Shadow, Distance and My Life in Heaven. Her work has appeared in American Literary Review, Colorado Review, FIELD, Laurel Review, Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She teaches in the MFA program at West Virginia University and can be found on Substack where she writes Cake & Poetry (https://maryannsamyn.substack.com). She lives in West Virginia and in her home state of Michigan.
THE RETURN FROM CALVARY
Sunset too in a low key: a little wait— what?. —I’m thinking of my father, everything he’ll ever say now said. And of the painting of the sorrow I was so afraid of. Days and weeks to come, we can’t imagine, for our own good. Something persists. Something grows tender. Nothing explains itself. As in the hospital, early and late, such disbelief— The bars of the bed are for railing against. His fist found out. God is sensible but not reasonable; everywhere I look.
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