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Zoom Rooms

Poems

Mary Jo Salter

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Random House Inc
29 March 2022
The timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.

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.
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Imprint:   Random House Inc
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 213mm,  Width: 149mm,  Spine: 6mm
Weight:   247g
ISBN:   9780593321317
ISBN 10:   0593321316
Pages:   80
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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.

Reviews for Zoom Rooms: Poems

""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"")


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