A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems by Salter, Mary Jo - Paperback

Knopf Publishing Group, 2009. Paperback. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Knopf, 2009-09-15. Paperback. Used: Good.

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New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009. 1st Printing. Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 5x0x8. First printing. Bottom corner of rear cover creased. 2009 Trade Paperback. xi, 222 pp. Superb new poems from one of the major poets of her generation, along with a selection of the best from Mary Jo Salter’s previous award-winning collections. In Mary Jo 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 brilliantly disorienting detachment. Here are poems imbued with the violence of modern life—a mother slapping her child on the subway, a child losing everything in the Iraq war—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… Read More

New York: Alfred A Knopf, 2009. Paperback Octavo. Paperback. Very good. wraps 222 pp.

Knopf, 2009-09-15. Reprint. Paperback. Used:Good.

Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2009. Paperback. New. reprint edition. 240 pages. 8.75x6.00x0.75 inches.

Knopf, 2009-09-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!