Mary Jo Salter

thumb|Mary Jo Salter Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, essayist, and editor. She is a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and professor emerita in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. Quotes "Costanza Bonarelli" (2004) Published in The American Scholar (Autumn 2004) Oh the inconstant Costanza,true-to-life but untrue! either alone suffices(love or art, that is)to lead a man to believewhole days can be best spentlost in a woman’s hair he’d have his thugunderling slash her face,her living flesh, with a toolnot so unlike the onethat he alone, the masterhad been skilled enough to wield,watching the marble yieldto each sweet, painstaking strokeof chisel against cheekuntil, so real, she fairlycried out for more. External links Category:1954 births Category:Living people Category:Women authors from the United States Category:Essayists from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Johns Hopkins University faculty Category:20th-century poets from the United States Category:University of Cambridge alumni Category:Women academics from the United States Category:Formalist poets Category:Poets from Baltimore