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The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied as Our Friends the Enemy, about the Christmas football match between German and British soldiers in 1914; The Afterlife, in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve the dead; and Voice of America, where Salter returns to the Saint Petersburg of her exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as counterpoint to another series entitled Bed of Letters, in which Salter addresses the end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness and loss in our lives.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49626712932625,"sku":"GOR007921727","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50352320610577,"sku":"CIN0385349793G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51323881390353,"sku":"CIN0385349793VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0385349793.jpg?v=1751357654"},{"product_id":"zoom-rooms-book-mary-jo-salter-9780593321317","title":"Zoom Rooms","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eZoom Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In these beautiful new poems, Salter directs us to moments we may otherwise miss, reminding us that alertness is itself a form of gratitude.\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744842326289,"sku":"NGR9780593321317","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50156556583185,"sku":"CIN0593321316G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50315413127441,"sku":"CIN0593321316VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0593321316.jpg?v=1751420279"},{"product_id":"phone-call-to-the-future-book-mary-jo-salter-9780375711565","title":"A Phone Call to the Future","description":"This wholly attractive volume that brings together twenty-five years of elegantly shaped and voiced creations (William Pritchard, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter's five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. 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In the first poem, Trompe l'Oeil, the shadow-casting shutters on Genoese houses are made of paint only, an open lie. And yet Who needs to be correct \/ more often than once a day? \/ Who needs real shadow more than play? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpen Shutters\u003c\/b\u003e also calls to mind the lens of a camera--in the villanelle School Pictures or in the stirring sequence In the Guesthouse, which, inspired by photographs of a family across three generations, offers at once a social history of America and a love story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDarkness and light interact throughout the book--in poems about September 11; about a dog named Shadow; about a blind centenarian who still pretends to read the paper; about a woman shaken by the death of her therapist. A section of light verse highlights the wit and grace that have long distinguished Salter's most serious work. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFittingly, the volume fools the eye once more by closing with An Open Book, in which a Muslim family praying at a funeral seek consolation in the pages formed by their upturned palms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpen Shutters \u003c\/b\u003eis the achievement of a remarkable poet, whose concerns and stylistic range continue to grow, encompassing ever larger themes, becoming ever more open. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52131792519441,"sku":"NLS9780375710148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53034940662033,"sku":"NIN9780375710148","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780375710148.jpg?v=1757512701"},{"product_id":"moon-comes-home-book-mary-jo-salter-9780394899831","title":"Moon Comes Home","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53385147482385,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53385148432657,"sku":"CIN0394899830G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780394899831.jpg?v=1775596656"},{"product_id":"cameo-appearance-book-mary-jo-salter-9780593804766","title":"Cameo Appearance","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom award winner Mary Jo Salter, new poems touching on the wonders of ordinary life and the brevity and preciousness of our time on earth\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With her signature dark humor-one eye on our possible redemption, the other on the human comedy-Salter here offers sparkling poems that consider youth and age, speaking and silence. As with her grandmother's cameo ring, long stashed in a drawer for fear she'd lose it but now fitting her finger perfectly, the poems are often drawn from her intimate life and the collapsing span of years- \"Where did they all go, \/ my go-go boots, bell-bottoms, \/ shoulder pads, opinions?\" the speaker wonders. Elsewhere, in the \"omniscient\" full moon flickering between trees, the jab of the vaccine needle in a baby's thigh, or the cutting beauty of a single tear frozen at high altitude, Salter engages with the disparate and dazzling range of our experiences, summoning the rewards of connection and awareness, as well as the sorrow at what we sometimes can't express to one another.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Alternating short lyrics with richer long narratives, flowing down the page in witty, melodious stanzas, Salter's poems expand our sense of gratitude for our brief \"cameo appearance\" in the one life we have.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53680252879121,"sku":"NGR9780593804766","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780593804766.jpg?v=1781681822"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-mary-jo-salter.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}