{"product_id":"zoom-rooms-poems","title":"Zoom Rooms: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eZoom Rooms: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eMary Jo Salter\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780593321317\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eKnopf\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\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\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Knopf","offers":[{"title":"Zoom Rooms: Poems | Mary Jo Salter | Book | 9780593321317 | New | Poetry 1405637","offer_id":50561096515842,"sku":"1405637","price":37.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/31qOTmoqRnL.jpg?v=1790705298","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/zoom-rooms-poems","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}