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4176543The Surveyorshttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-surveyors-9781524732677/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2596837/18c71316-f99d-4403-8e9a-50fc174b8b02.jpg?v=638384190895930000254353MXNKnopf Doubleday Publishing GroupInStock/Ebooks/<p><strong>A beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of lifes surprises.</strong></p><p>"Im still alive and now Im in Bratislava," says the speaker of one of Salters 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 weve lost. The title poem, a crown of sonnets, takes up key moments in the poets 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, "Thats funny . . . "</p>...4112531The Surveyors254353https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-surveyors-9781524732677/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/2596837/18c71316-f99d-4403-8e9a-50fc174b8b02.jpg?v=638384190895930000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20179781524732677_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_<p><strong>A beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of lifes surprises.</strong></p><p>Im still alive and now Im in Bratislava, says the speaker of one of Salters 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 weve lost. The title poem, a crown of sonnets, takes up key moments in the poets 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, Thats funny . . . </p>...(*_*)9781524732677_<p><strong>A beautiful new collection from Mary Jo Salter brings us poems of puzzlement and acceptance in the face of lifes surprises.</strong></p><p>"Im still alive and now Im in Bratislava," says the speaker of one of Salters 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 weve lost. The title poem, a crown of sonnets, takes up key moments in the poets 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, "Thats funny . . . "</p>...9781524732677_Knopf Doubleday Publishing Grouplibro_electonico_f82869fd-0cc3-3802-8433-12568cc6bbcf_9781524732677;9781524732677_9781524732677Mary JoInglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/RandomHouse-epub-70be550e-adea-4818-a314-36a811b56791.epub2017-08-22T00:00:00+00:00Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group