{"product_id":"zoom-rooms-9780593321317","title":"Zoom Rooms","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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.","brand":"Random House USA Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735714246999,"sku":"9780593321317","price":21.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780593321317.jpg?v=1723810309","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/zoom-rooms-9780593321317","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}