Autopsy Report


I shall begin with the chests of drowned men, bound with ropes and diesel-slicked. Their ears sludge-filled. Their legs mud-smeared. Asleep below deck when a freighter hit and the river rose inside their tug. Their lashes white with river silt.

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I shall stand beside sharp pelvic bones, his mod hip-huggers stretched tightly between them. His ribs like steppes, ice-shelves, sandstone. His wide-open mouth, where a last breath came out.
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—Lia Purpura, from On Looking: Essays

Mark Jarman is interviewed by the Savannah Morning News.

Lia Purpura's Rough Likeness is reviewed in the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

The 2012 Kathryn A. Morton and Mary McCarthy contests are now open for submission! Click here to submit your manuscript electronically.

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03-12-2012
Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006

Hamline University St. Paul, MN
7:00 pm


Kelly Krebs, Asst. Dean for Graduate Programs
kkrebs@hamline.edu
http://www.hamline.edu/cla/bfa/visiting-writers.html

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