A phone call to the future : new and selected poems
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9780307267184, 0307267180
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xi, 222 pages ; 22 cm.
Status
Jackson Public Library - Nonfiction Section
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Published
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
ISBN
9780307267184, 0307267180
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New poems from one of the major poets of her generation, along with a selection of the best from previous collections. In Salter's poetry we have a unique blend of domestic drama and the grittier wider world. In the title poem, she reimagines the technological simplicities and humanistic verities of the past with a disorienting detachment. Here are poems imbued with the violence of modern life, and others that bring a witty luminosity to peacocks in the park, to shoe-shine "thrones" at the airport, and to poetry itself. A tender elegy for the poet Anthony Hecht is followed by poems about the Baroque sculptor Bernini and the German Expressionist painter August Macke, which add to Salter's already impressive list of poems about image-making. Although in many of the poems Salter looks back wistfully at what is lost, she also sets her sights on the future: "Lord, surprise me with even more to miss."--Publisher description.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Salter, M. J. (2008). A phone call to the future: new and selected poems . Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Salter, Mary Jo. 2008. A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems. Alfred A. Knopf.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Salter, Mary Jo. A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Salter, Mary Jo. A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems Alfred A. Knopf, 2008.
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