Mary Jo Salter

The Surveyors

Poems

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A beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of life's surprises. I'm still alive and now I'm in Bratislava, says the speaker of one of Salter's poems, as she travels with her unlikely late-in-life love, a military man. She never expected to be here, to know someone like him, to be parted from her previous life; how did it happen? Time is hurtling, but these poems try to slow it down to examine its curious by-products--the prints of Dürer, an Afghan carpet, photographs of people we've lost. The title poem, a crown of sonnets, takes up key moments in the poet's past, the quirky advent… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-5247-3267-7
EAN: 9781524732677
Produktnummer: 21896995
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
Seitenangabe: 112 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'193 KB

Über den Autor

MARY JO SALTER was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She was educated at Harvard and Cambridge and taught at Mount Holyoke College for many years. She also served as poetry editor of The New Republic. In addition to her seven previous poetry collections, she is the author of a children's book, The Moon Comes Home, and a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry. She is Andrew W. Mellon Professor in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore.