Open Shutters

ISBN-13: 9780375710148 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 96 str.

Mary Jo Salter

Opis

Mary Jo Salter s sparkling new collection, Open Shutters, leads us into a world where things are often not what they seem. In the first poem, Trompe l Oeil, the shadow-casting shutters on Genoese houses are made of paint only, an open lie. And yet Who needs to be correct / more often than once a day? / Who needs real shadow more than play?
Open Shutters also calls to mind the lens of a camera in the villanelle School Pictures or in the stirring sequence In the Guesthouse, which, inspired by photographs of a family across three generations, offers at once a social history of America and a love story.
Darkness and light interact throughout the book in poems about September 11; about a dog named Shadow; about a blind centenarian who still pretends to read the paper; about a woman shaken by the death of her therapist. A section of light verse highlights the wit and grace that have long distinguished Salter s most serious work.
Fittingly, the volume fools the eye once more by closing with An Open Book, in which a Muslim family praying at a funeral seek consolation in the pages formed by their upturned palms.

Open Shutters is the achievement of a remarkable poet, whose concerns and stylistic range continue to grow, encompassing ever larger themes, becoming ever more open. From the Hardcover edition."