Corruption: Poems (National Poetry Series #4)

From Renaissance Florence to modern America, an arresting poetry collection exploring art, desire, and the corruptible body.

A rich debut collection from a promising new poet -- selected by Campbell McGrath as a winner of the 2004 National Poetry Series Open Competition

Norton assembles an incisive sequence of lyric meditations, examining Caravaggio, Michelangelo, and the quiet cloisters of San Marco. Her lines weigh physical mortality against the enduring surfaces of stone, canvas, and memory.

The book then shifts toward midcentury American settings, chronicling a 1962 fallout shelter in Philadelphia and night pastures in Amherst, Virginia.

For more than twenty-five years, the National Poetry Series has sought out and discovered new voices, helping to launch the careers of such luminaries as the former poet laureate Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Stephen Dobyns, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.

• Ekphrastic Poetry: Verses engage masterworks like Ghirlandaio’s Last Supper fresco, picturing John asleep beside a moss-green alabaster bowl.
• Sapphic Poetry: Intimate passages trace nocturnal swims and queer longing, watching a lover surface into starlight with dark, glittering hair.
• Nature Poetry: Winter landscapes follow solitary deer tracks through cold silence, observing a glowing snowy owl take flight among frozen boughs.
• Contemporary Poetry: Narrative accounts revisit twentieth-century figures, watching poet Marianne Moore scale Mount Rainier alongside her brother on glacial ropes.

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