In the December 2012 issue of Poetry Magazine, Mary Karr takes a crack at writing a poem in the voice of Our Lady.
In the December 2012 issue of Poetry Magazine, Mary Karr takes a crack at writing a poem in the voice of Our Lady.
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Other than the broken daughter of Eve line…
niiiice.
That set off my heresy detector, too, but ‘broken’ is after all an equivocal term. In the context of the poem, it seems to have to do with pain and suffering (brokenheartedness), rather than sin.
A good’n. Thanks. It all hangs on the last two lines of course.
agreed…
Mary Karr is the cobra to my mongoose. Or, maybe I’m the cobra to her mongoose.
Thanks Angelico.
Hmm: “Poor broken child of Eve myself,…”
I rather like the line; it probably does not even require a reverent exposition, as when Thomas cuts Augustine some slack for sometimes overstating his case, making allowance as he does for the polemical nature of Dr Grace’s discourse.
On its own: the crush of sorrow breaks all but the callous, and breaks none more than her.