{"product_id":"the-surveyors-poems-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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 . . . \"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781524732660\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 112\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.60h x 6.30w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2017 pg. 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2017\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Mary Jo Salter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52181291499701,"sku":"9781524732660","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_95f2cec0-01d8-4d9c-8267-b0ee3d2630bc.jpg?v=1768922551","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-surveyors-poems-9781524732660","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}