{"product_id":"zoom-rooms-poems-9780593321317","title":"Zoom Rooms: Poems","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51967073190162,"sku":"9780593321317","price":20.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ddc98c85-a315-4b1b-b00d-b3501e7009bb.jpg?v=1768924324","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/zoom-rooms-poems-9780593321317","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}