{"product_id":"salter-mary-jo-the-survey","title":"Salter, Mary Jo: The Surveyors (HB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eKnopf, hardcover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublication Date: August 22, 2017\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher Marketing: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of life's surprises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I'm still alive and now I'm in Bratislava,\" 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, \"That's funny . . . \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40817226842135,"sku":"9781524732660","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0004\/6497\/7956\/files\/81T_2bnhrOL._SL1500.jpg?v=1776544042","url":"https:\/\/open-books-a-poem-emporium.myshopify.com\/products\/salter-mary-jo-the-survey","provider":"Open Books: A Poem Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}