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This “wholly attractive volume” that brings together twenty-five years of “elegantly shaped and voiced creations” (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter’s five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation.
- Sales Rank: #1699740 in Books
- Brand: Salter, Mary Jo
- Published on: 2009-09-15
- Released on: 2009-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.29" h x .62" w x 5.87" l, .73 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 240 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Celebrated since the 1980s for her deftly articulate, often wittily rhymed lyric poems, Salter demonstrates those strengths and others in this sixth volume. From the start, Salter's verse can sound urbane and serious, ceremonious and supple: a nine-part elegy for a friend who died young contains a villanelle with the refrain I know you're gone for good. And this is how:/ were you alive, you would have called by now. Other poems react to the death of Salter's mother, to her own experience of parenthood, and to life with her husband, poet and critic Brad Leithauser. Salter may be the most gifted mid-career disciple of James Merrill's work, and her detractors may say she still works in his shadow. Yet her loosely syllabic stanzas owe as much to Marianne Moore, and her best poems stand apart for their careful sensitivity both to works of art and to her own family life, sounding as much herself when sighing, you reach an age when classics// are what you must have read as when she imagines the synchronized operations/ across the neighborhood:/ putting the children to bed;/ laying out clean clothes. (Mar.)
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Review
“Only a few poets transcend the history of taste to participate in the history of art—and only in a handful of poems. Salter has been struck by lightning more than once.” —James Longenbach, The New York Times Book Review
“Poems that are deeply human, brilliantly realized, and refreshingly perceptive.” —Julie Hale, BookPage
About the Author
Mary Jo Salter is the author of five previous books of poetry and a children’s book, The Moon Comes Home. She is a professor in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. She divides her time between Amherst, Massachusetts, and Baltimore.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Some new precise pieces from a master
By Marcus Aurelius
There are few poets like I look forward to new poems by with as much anticipation as those by MJS. This collection will not disappoint--unless, like me, your reaction is going to be skip the selected work; I want to enjoy the crafted pieces by a master poet. While there are only a handful of new poems, I did do what I always promise myself but rarely follow up on: I revisited a few favorites and forgotten pieces from her earlier volumes. Some readers may lament that the poems are selected and not collected, for me it was a fine blend of new and old material. If MJS's work is new to you, you'll have the joy of discovering material from her previous collections; if you've been following her work all along, you'll be happy to read the grouping that starts the collection. Everything MJS publishes is poetry of the highest order.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Add my voice to those who loved this book
By P. Laster
Mary Jo Salter's hardback book sat (with other poetry books) on Hastings' sale table. I'd only heard of her, never read her. The book sat in my own shelf for a year before I pulled it out. Add my voice to those who laud her work. I especially liked "Goodbye, Train." I underlined this phrase from "Musical Chair": "... in a pond now deepening to a shade that looks like bedtime...". Her villanelle, "Refrain" is full of slant rhyme--something more of us should perhaps consider using. Repetition in the "re-" and alliteration in "Inside the Midget" caught my eye, too: "...refurnished, refinished, refined...recognize--..."
Alas, I promised it as a door prize for a poetry retreat, but if I ever see another one, it's mine. Highly recommended.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
Beautiful prose. This depth of emotion is too heavy for every day reading. (At least for me).
By K.w.
Sorry if my review is super scattered.
Bottom line: is she is a good writer.
I would give it 5 stars if it wasn't such heavy material (depressing) for me.
This may have value to you, however, and you should read it at least nice and judge for yourself. (Read on).
So-- This book of poems was a bit heavy for me , .....but still- I recommend everyone take a look at Elegies for Etsuko. I think it is / will become a classic, if it hasn't already. I will never forget it. I love all artists that take a risk to try and make a stab at voicing the pain of losing a friend....of unmasking the cloak that is a suicide. A warning to others as a "Phone Call to the Future", as it were, to realize the pain and finality that death leaves as a trail behind itself. (Not a direct quote, --just my of tieing the title into my review. I'm not sure where in the book lies this expression explicitly, if at all).
Elegies for Etsuko- I am so moved by this set of verses to Salter's friend, Etsuko Akai.
When her name appears, haltingly, in one of the last of the eight parts, I am jilted to the reality-- This woman, described in the poem--she is, in fact dead. I know it seems obvious , but I guess it was so striking for me because it is the tradition classically to euphemistically dance around the sadness that is someone's death. Instead, she faces it, states it, names it. It's almost awkward to be present for the revelations that are so personal. It is a reflection, nonetheless, of our modern style of everything becoming public. We say it. We are shocking. Nothing is taboo.
The taboo is th norm. To be the euphemistic, to cite a norm is the new taboo.
But there is the classic sad emotions in this poetry. Like the musings of Keats on his own mortality or Odes to "blank".
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Don't misunderstand me to be disparaging this work. I just have so much thought and emotion about it that. I think it has served its purpose , no?
...Mary Jo salter. Wow. At first easy to underestimate as simplicity, she has so much to say and feel that it hurts me to read her too much. I recognize too well some of the emotions expressed here.maybe for a person given towards depression, it's less than ideal reading material for me, personally.
she has such a gift of mingling modern language and tone with an elegance that belies her own humility in describing life.
The author's nakedness is exposed, here, in "Phone Call..." in sharing such honest feelings, musings, broodings-- on losing a friend, a loved one, and on the pain that is inherent to the nagging urge to write, described in "Aubade to Brad".
I'll confess I couldn't make it through all of the text because the emotions bared in this volume were too raw for me, personally; Though, I will forever be touched and moved by her humble expressions in "Elegies to Etsuko".
Overall, the sadness within the whole book of poems was too dark for me to be able to bear at one setting. I gave my copy away and -- in some respects wishing I still had it to re-read on rare occasion. I Iike being able to empathize with someone else who feels the way that i do sometimes....it minimizes the loneliness of the human experience. Instead, though, I chose to let this gem pass on to the next reader as a donation. I hope they will enjoy the book.
Like other dense material of this depth and intensity, I love to visit it from time to time, like an old friend . But I can not, nor should I -- go there too often. Thank you, Ms, Salter for sharing so generously --I hope they have written Etsuko Akai's name in the sky, and that she is remembered always for who she was :) !
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