{"product_id":"books-zoom-rooms-by-mary-jo-salter","title":"Zoom Rooms","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eZoom Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53507806757137,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780593321317.jpg?v=1778135454","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-zoom-rooms-by-mary-jo-salter","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}