{"product_id":"zoom-rooms-poems-isbn-9780593321317","title":"Zoom Rooms: Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eZoom Rooms\u003c\/i\u003e, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe title poem, a series of sonnet-sized Zoom meetings—a classroom, a memorial service, an encounter with a new baby in the family—finds humor and pathos in our age of social distancing and technology-induced proximity. Salter shows too how imagination collapses time and space: in “Island Diaries,” the pragmatist Robinson Crusoe meets on the beach a shipwrecked dreamer from an earlier century, Shakespeare’s Prospero. Poems that meditate on objects—a silk blouse, a hot water bottle—address the human need to heal and console. Our paradoxically solitary but communal experiences find expression, too, in poems about art, from a Walker Evans photograph to a gilded Giotto altarpiece.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eIn these beautiful new poems, Salter directs us to moments we may otherwise miss, reminding us that alertness is itself a form of gratitude.\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305065173221,"sku":"NP9780593321317","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780593321317.jpg?v=1767744891","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/zoom-rooms-poems-isbn-9780593321317","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}