patricia corbus
Patricia Corbus grew up in Sarasota Florida, in her parents’ shell shop, The Nautilus. She graduated from Agnes Scott College, and holds a Master’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an MFA at the Warren Wilson Program for Writers. She has loved poetry for as long as she can remember.
winner of 2015
off the grid Poetry prize
“Patricia Corbus is a brilliant, virtuoso poet. Her rich linguistic palette channels an adventurous and fabular intelligence that reminds us of poets like Stevens, Ruefle and Ashbery.””
“In language that is both accessible and vivid, Patricia Corbus’s Finestra’s Window vigorously leaps between myth, fantasy, the past, and the very present, mortal, human world.”
Finestra’s Window
Poems by Patricia Corbus
Patricia Corbus’s starting point is home, where “in pearly clouds / called fog we sit / on unseen chairs / …We stay, we go.” When she goes, there are no limits to her flights, which, for example, may take her to “the vast loneliness of fledgling planets, / bitter-smelling rocks in empty rivers, / not decaying in patience like houses or bodies / slowly sinking—but firming, moons jockeying / like China juggled out of a cupboard.”
winner of 2015
off the grid prize
