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Edward Mayes’s five books of poetry include First Language (Juniper Prize, University of Massachusetts Press) and Works & Days (Associated Writing Programs—AWP—Prize in Poetry, University of Pittsburgh Press). He has published poems in The Southern Review, Poetry, The New Yorker, APR, and The Best American Poetry, with recent poems in The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, AGNI, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Harvard Review, Blackbird, and Crazyhorse. He lives in Hillsborough, North Carolina and Cortona, Italy with his wife, the writer, Frances Mayes.
Poetry
We thought again of Francisco de Zurbarán’s hands
And if what they held had half the weight
Of beauty and half the heft of truth, his
Beautifully dressed martyrs, ready to wear
Their death, which will continue to remain
Unfashionable
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