Sarah Joyce Bersonsage
CORPUS/CORPS
Cover Art: Anish Kapoor, "A Flower, A Drama Like Death," 1986. Polystyrene, plaster, cloth, gesso, and raw pigment, three parts. MOMA
CORPUS/CORPS
we were graceless ballerinas, all
the graduate students growing thinner hungrier, better every year—even if our tights were not sheer but black, as thick as chapters. graceless—yet there is a certain common grace in working to the bone—a protestant grace irresistible—good calvinists all (especially the atheists) we searched for signs of our unconditional election. in the basement bathroom with its backstage lights i traced my clavicle, considered sticking my inkstained finger down my throat. at the bar(re) again, we drank and wished each other merde. (we never could resist the french.) except when anyone was on thin ice we slipped wishing devoutly that she would break a leg. |
Sarah Joyce Bersonsage received a B.A. from the University of Michigan-Flint and a Ph.D from the University of Rochester, where she specialized in seventeenth-century British literature. She is a native of the Flint area, to which she recently returned after numerous adventures in western New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Her poetry has appeared in Antiphon, About Place, and Bop Dead City.