Cameo Appearance
Poems
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Cameo Appearance
Narrated by:
Mary Jo Salter
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Narrated by:
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Mary Jo Salter
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By:
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Mary Jo Salter
With her signature dark humor—one eye on our possible redemption, the other on the human comedy—Salter here offers sparkling poems that consider youth and age, speaking and silence. As with her grandmother’s cameo ring, long stashed in a drawer for fear she’d lose it but now fitting her finger perfectly, the poems are often drawn from her intimate life and the collapsing span of years: “Where did they all go, / my go-go boots, bell-bottoms, / shoulder pads, opinions?” the speaker wonders. Elsewhere, in the “omniscient” full moon flickering between trees, the jab of the vaccine needle in a baby’s thigh, or the cutting beauty of a single tear frozen at high altitude, Salter engages with the disparate and dazzling range of our experiences, summoning the rewards of connection and awareness, as well as the sorrow at what we sometimes can’t express to one another.
Alternating short lyrics with richer long narratives, flowing down the page in witty, melodious stanzas, Salter’s poems expand our sense of gratitude for our brief “cameo appearance” in the one life we have.
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Critic reviews
“Rippling with warmth, Mary Jo Salter’s ninth poetry collection is filled with her signature dark humor and penchant for capturing mundane profundities. Whether it’s a single tear frozen at high altitude or your grandmother’s cameo ring finally fitting your finger, she makes you pay attention.” —Marie Claire
“Salter, one of our great recorders of life’s details, small and beautiful and imperfect though they may be, returns here with her ninth poetry collection. As ever, she brings her signature mix of profundity and humor to these poems, some brief and lyric, others long and narrative-driven. May she publish nine more collections.” —Literary Hub
"When it comes to illuminating the extraordinary aspects of the everyday, Salter is one of poetry’s most delightful and reliable witnesses. . . . Affectionately pithy . . . . Salter captures the passage of time in this memorable and skillfully constructed volume." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Salter, one of our great recorders of life’s details, small and beautiful and imperfect though they may be, returns here with her ninth poetry collection. As ever, she brings her signature mix of profundity and humor to these poems, some brief and lyric, others long and narrative-driven. May she publish nine more collections.” —Literary Hub
"When it comes to illuminating the extraordinary aspects of the everyday, Salter is one of poetry’s most delightful and reliable witnesses. . . . Affectionately pithy . . . . Salter captures the passage of time in this memorable and skillfully constructed volume." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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