Nick Ripatrazone enjoys the latest collection of poems by Maryann Corbett both entertaining and devotional.
Tucked in the back of a book, an author’s biographical note is often perfunctory and formulaic. Yet poets, to borrow a sentiment from Robert Frost, must be open to surprises. At the end of The O in the Air, we read: “Maryann Corbett earned a doctorate in English from the University of Minnesota and expected to be teaching Beowulf and Chaucer and the history of the English language. Instead, she spent almost 35 years working for the Office of the Revisor of Statutes of the Minnesota legislature, helping attorneys to write plain English.”
