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Poems
$54.63
- Hardcover
112 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
From award winner Mary Jo Salter, new poems touching on the wonders of ordinary life and the brevity and preciousness of our time on earth.
With her signature dark humor—one eye on our possible redemption, the other on the human comedy—Salter here offers sparkling poems that consider youth and age, speaking and silence. As with her grandmother’s cameo ring, long stashed in a drawer for fear she’d lose it but now fitting her finger perfectly, the poems are often drawn from her intimate…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593804766 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0593804767 |
| Author: | Mary Jo Salter |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 112 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 298g |
| Dimensions: | 149mm x 213mm |
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Critics Review
“Rippling with warmth, Mary Jo Salter’s ninth poetry collection is filled with her signature dark humor and penchant for capturing mundane profundities. Whether it’s a single tear frozen at high altitude or your grandmother’s cameo ring finally fitting your finger, she makes you pay attention.” —Marie Claire
“Salter, one of our great recorders of life’s details, small and beautiful and imperfect though they may be, returns here with her ninth poetry collection. As ever, she brings her signature mix of profundity and humor to these poems, some brief and lyric, others long and narrative-driven. May she publish nine more collections.” —Literary Hub
“When it comes to illuminating the extraordinary aspects of the everyday, Salter is one of poetry’s most delightful and reliable witnesses… . Affectionately pithy … . Salter captures the passage of time in this memorable and skillfully constructed volume.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Mary Jo Salter
- Mary Jo Salter is Professor Emerita in The Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University.
- She is the author of nine previous poetry collections and a children’s book.
- She is also a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry.
- She lives in Baltimore.
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