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Cameo Appearance Poems
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
ePUB
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Ja
Erscheinungsdatum
06.10.2026
Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupSeitenzahl
112 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
1693 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780593804773
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. Like 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 life and the collapsing span of her years: "Where did they all go/ my go-go boots, bell-bottoms, / shoulder pads/ opinions?" she wonders. Elsewhere, in the "omniscient" full moon flickering between trees, the jab of the vaccine needle in a grandchild's thigh, or the cutting beauty of a single tear frozen at high altitude, Salter engages with the disparate and dazzling range of our experiences, summoning the rewards of connection and awareness, the sorrow at what we sometimes can't express to one another.
Alternating short lyrics with richer long narratives, flowing down the page in witty, melodious quatrains, Salter's poems expand our sense of gratitude for our brief "cameo appearance" in the one life we have.
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. Like 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 life and the collapsing span of her years: "Where did they all go/ my go-go boots, bell-bottoms, / shoulder pads/ opinions?" she wonders. Elsewhere, in the "omniscient" full moon flickering between trees, the jab of the vaccine needle in a grandchild's thigh, or the cutting beauty of a single tear frozen at high altitude, Salter engages with the disparate and dazzling range of our experiences, summoning the rewards of connection and awareness, the sorrow at what we sometimes can't express to one another.
Alternating short lyrics with richer long narratives, flowing down the page in witty, melodious quatrains, Salter's poems expand our sense of gratitude for our brief "cameo appearance" in the one life we have.
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