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Mary Jo Salter is the author of five previous books of poetry and a children’s book, The Moon Comes Home. She is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She divides her time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Baltimore.
Only a few poets transcend the history of taste to participate in the history of art-and only in a handful of poems. Salter has been struck by lightning more than once... 'Another Session' is, like Elegies for Etsuko, ' a disorienting work of art. --James Longenbach, The New York Times Book Review <br> Celebrated since the 1980's for her deftly articulate, often wittily rhymed lyric poems, Salter demonstrates those strengths and others in this sixth volume . . . Salter may be the most gifted mid-career disciple of James Merrill's work . . . yet her loosely syllabic stanzas owe as much to Marianne Moore, and her best poems stand apart for their careful sensitivity both to works of art and to her own family life. <br>-- Publishers Weekly<br> <br> Marked by a very conscious sense of craft, Salter's work is precise and artful, composed with a decided sensitivity toward formal poetic tradition . . . There are no extraordinary events here, just the business of day-to-day living, with its little highs and lows, recounted in poems that are deeply human, brilliantly realized and refreshingly perceptive. --Julie Hale, Bookpage <br> <p> From the Hardcover edition.
