{"product_id":"the-surveyors-poems-isbn-9781524732660","title":"The Surveyors: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of life's surprises.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 . . . \"","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300805333221,"sku":"NP9781524732660","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781524732660.jpg?v=1767741744","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-surveyors-poems-isbn-9781524732660","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}