Summary
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 …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593321317 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593321316 |
| Author: | Mary Jo Salter |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 3 May 2022 |
| Weight: | 247g |
| Dimensions: | 213mm x 149mm |
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“Salter pairs her exceptional formal deftness with arch insouciance, bringing both rigor and wit to subtly provocative poems that revel in human ingenuity and parse fear, loss, and sorrow… . [A] wryly illuminating suite of sonnets about life on the screen … Salter, who can feel Audenesque, is a supremely incisive ekphrastic poet… . These are poems of piquant insight and artistry.” —Donna Seaman, Booklist
“Salter’s poems are impeccably crafted.” —Beverley Bie Brahic, The Times Literary Supplement
“Mary Jo Salter’s use of poetic forms and her characteristic surprising line breaks infuse her work with an element of play. For all that must be endured in an individual life and in the world, there is still beauty, goodness, and hope to be found.” —Lindsey Weishar, Ploughshares
“A thorough pleasure… . Timely and delightful… . Salter addresses the bewildering present moment while reminding of past (and future) pleasures. Salter conjures a rich cast of characters and literary allusions, her fine ear on display at every turn.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“It would be challenging to find a poetry collection encompassing a wider range of subjects than Salter’s latest… . Salter enfolds the varied objects of her attention within the lapidary midcentury formalism of polished rhymes and traditional prosody.” —Fred Muratori, Library Journal
“What I so admire about Salter’s work is that directness never comes at the expense of deep thought, nor does a baseline cheerfulness and willingness to be persuaded by life’s pleasure exist without acknowledgement of senselessness and strife … Salter captures how our experiences of beauty aren’t quite articulable and implicitly challenge our understanding of time’s passing.” —Maya C. Popa, Poetry Society of America (“The Poet’s Nightstand”)
About The Author
Mary Jo Salter
MARY JO SALTER is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of eight previous poetry collections and a children’s book, and is a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. She lives in Baltimore.
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