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Open Shutters: Poems by Salter, Mary Jo
by Salter, Mary Jo | HC | Good
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- ISBN
- 9781400040087
- Book Title
- Open Shutters : Poems
- Item Length
- 8.8 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
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- Genre
- Poetry
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 6.5 in
- Item Weight
- 11 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 96 Pages
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Mary Jo Salter's sparkling new collection,Open Shutters, leads us into a world where things are often not what they seem. In the first poem, "Trompe l'Oeil," the shadow-casting shutters on Genoese houses are made of paint only, an "open lie." And yet "Who needs to be correct / more often than once a day? / Who needs real shadow more than play?" Open Shuttersalso calls to mind the lens of a camera-in the villanelle "School Pictures" or in the stirring sequence "In the Guesthouse," which, inspired by photographs of a family across three generations, offers at once a social history of America and a love story. Darkness and light interact throughout the book-in poems about September 11; about a dog named Shadow; about a blind centenarian who still pretends to read the paper; about a woman shaken by the death of her therapist. A section of light verse highlights the wit and grace that have long distinguished Salter's most serious work. Fittingly, the volume fools the eye once more by closing with "An Open Book," in which a Muslim family praying at a funeral seek consolation in the pages formed by their upturned palms. Open Shuttersis the achievement of a remarkable poet, whose concerns and stylistic range continue to grow, encompassing ever larger themes, becoming ever more open.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400040086
ISBN-13
9781400040087
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Open Shutters : Poems
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.8 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
11 Oz
Additional Product Features
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Ps3569.A46224o6 2003
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Open Shutters (2003) "[Salter] . . . challenges us with the discovery that something lucid, forthright, and fantastically undisheveled might also be sublime." Stephen Metcalf, New York Times Book Review "Salter . . . performs with deep pleasure and arresting artistry the paired arts of avid observation and the transformation of hectic experience into crystalline images, golden threads of narrative, and startling extrapolations . . Salter's moves are so precise and gravity-defying, so astonishingly eloquent, the exhilarated reader feels as though she's watching a gymnast perform intricate, risky, and unpredictable sequences, nailing each one perfectly. Donna Seaman, Booklist "A mature poet at the top of her form. . . Delightful." Rochelle Ratner, Library Journal A Kiss in Space (1999) "The book of poetry I loved best this year was A Kiss in Space , full of moving adventurous work." Les Murray, Times Literary Supplement "These are poems of breathtaking elegance: in formal control, in intellectual subtlety, in learning lightly displayed." Carolyn Kizer Sunday Skaters ( 1994) "A beautiful book, a major phase in the career of an important poet . . . In these poems a quality of close but apparently effortless observation is backed up by a strong and deep moral sense." Henry Taylor Unfinished Painting (1989) "Mary Jo Salter's work embodies the marriage of superb craftsmanship to the tragic sense of reality, which is the formula of true poetry." Joseph Brodsky Henry Purcell in Japan (1985) "A poetry full of alertness, tact, credible feeling, and an unforced gaiety of form . . . For all her modesty of tone, she has a range of awareness and response, which, in a time when much poetry has shrunk to the merely personal, is refreshingly large." Richard Wilbur, Open Shutters(2003) "[Salter] . . . challenges us with the discovery that something lucid, forthright, and fantastically undisheveled might also be sublime." Stephen Metcalf,New York Times Book Review "Salter . . . performs with deep pleasure and arresting artistry the paired arts of avid observation and the transformation of hectic experience into crystalline images, golden threads of narrative, and startling extrapolations . . Salter's moves are so precise and gravity-defying, so astonishingly eloquent, the exhilarated reader feels as though she's watching a gymnast perform intricate, risky, and unpredictable sequences, nailing each one perfectly. Donna Seaman,Booklist "A mature poet at the top of her form. . . Delightful." Rochelle Ratner,Library Journal A Kiss in Space(1999) "The book of poetry I loved best this year wasA Kiss in Space, full of moving adventurous work." Les Murray,Times Literary Supplement "These are poems of breathtaking elegance: in formal control, in intellectual subtlety, in learning lightly displayed." Carolyn Kizer Sunday Skaters (1994) "A beautiful book, a major phase in the career of an important poet . . . In these poems a quality of close but apparently effortless observation is backed up by a strong and deep moral sense." Henry Taylor Unfinished Painting(1989) "Mary Jo Salter's work embodies the marriage of superb craftsmanship to the tragic sense of reality, which is the formula of true poetry." Joseph Brodsky Henry Purcell in Japan(1985) "A poetry full of alertness, tact, credible feeling, and an unforced gaiety of form . . . For all her modesty of tone, she has a range of awareness and response, which, in a time when much poetry has shrunk to the merely personal, is refreshingly large." Richard Wilbur
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2003
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2002-030185
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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