Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist is an American poet...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
CountryUnited States of America
endlessly love poetry
Form is endlessly interesting to me, and I love poetry as a formal enterprise.
address answer attracted beyond cannot communication fully itself level perhaps reaches true
I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.
chance poems spaces
Writing poems is a chance to construct spaces that I want to imaginatively inhabit.
color scent pages
If I could/bind myself to this moment, to the slow//snare of its scent/what would it matter if I became//just the flutter of page/in a text someone turns//to examine me/in the wrong color?
miracle doe can-do
There’s plenty that poetry cannot do, but the miracle, of course, is how much it can do, how much it does do.
believed consciousness devastated found heard missed outside poetry point reached turned unable
When I was young, I reached a point where I found myself unable to pray. I was devastated by it. I missed being able to say words in my head that I believed could be heard by a being, a consciousness outside me. That is when I turned to poetry.