Having Descended to the Heart

Scott Cairns teaches at the University of Missouri at Columbia and serves as series editor for The Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry from the University of North Texas Press. He work has appeared in The Paris Review, Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, AGNI, and Prairie Schooner. His most recent collection, Recovered Body, was published in 1998 by George Braziller Publishers. (updated 2000)