Zoom Rooms: Poems Contributor(s): Salter, Mary Jo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0593321316 ISBN-13: 9780593321317 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $25.20 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2022 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | Women Authors - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Family |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2021038888 |
Physical Information: 0.63" H x 5.91" W x 8.5" (0.55 lbs) 96 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: The timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet. In Zoom Rooms, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives. The title poem, a series of sonnet-sized Zoom meetings--a classroom, a memorial service, an encounter with a new baby in the family--finds humor and pathos in our age of social distancing and technology-induced proximity. Salter shows too how imagination collapses time and space: in "Island Diaries," the pragmatist Robinson Crusoe meets on the beach a shipwrecked dreamer from an earlier century, Shakespeare's Prospero. Poems that meditate on objects--a silk blouse, a hot water bottle--address the human need to heal and console. Our paradoxically solitary but communal experiences find expression, too, in poems about art, from a Walker Evans photograph to a gilded Giotto altarpiece. In these beautiful new poems, Salter directs us to moments we may otherwise miss, reminding us that alertness is itself a form of gratitude. |