Maryann Corbett

Maryann Corbett

Maryann Corbett is the author of three books of poetry and two chapbooks, most recently <i>Mid Evil</i>, the 2014 winner of the Richard Wilbur Award. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared

The Window Shoppers

Strolling the malls, in the bauble-bright late Fifties, My schoolmates’ parents could be nonchalant. Not mine. Already earners in the Thirties, They’d known the rancid tang of actual want And window-browsing made