{"product_id":"zoom-rooms-poems-hardcover","title":"Zoom Rooms: Poems - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Jo Salter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARY 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Norton Anthology of Poetry.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives in Baltimore.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 96\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 8.5 x 5.91 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 29, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767276241184,"sku":"9780593321317","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8eee03458715e542cd4bda5ca92a67ce.webp?v=1780308020","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/zoom-rooms-poems-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}