Surveyors (eBook)

Mary Jo Salter (Autor)

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2017
112 Seiten
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (Verlag)
978-1-5247-3267-7 (ISBN)

Infos

A beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of life's surprises. "e;I'm still alive and now I'm in Bratislava,"e; 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 of poetic inspiration, and the seemingly sci-fi future of the universe. Throughout, in a tone of ironic wonderment, placing rich new love poems alongside some inevitable poems of leavetaking, Salter invites the reader to weigh and ponder the way things have turned out--for herself, for all of us--in this new century, and perhaps to conclude, as she does, "e;That's funny . . . "e;

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.8.2017
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• ISBN-10: 1-5247-3267-2 / 1524732672
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5247-3267-7 / 9781524732677