Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Great Regulars: With its change to a Web-only feature,

Poet's Choice is evolving. We'll be asking a different poet each week to share with us a poem he or she has written. Mary Karr, who has been our eloquent columnist since March 2008, starts us off on this new format.--The Editors

The heartbroken so often write poetry, but there's damn little in poetic history about heartbreak's recovery. For me it's a spiritual process in which I reconnect with the human family, and that's done through prayer. I also adore reading small, intensely morbid stories by Isaac Babel. "Konkin" opens with a group of Red Cavalry soldiers chopping up Poles, then "hugging each other with hatchets." Such were my starting points when I wrote this poem.

Recuperation from the Sunk Love Through the Aegis of Christ and Isaac Babel

from Mary Karr: The Washington Post: Poet's Choice

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