Nothing by Design

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American, Literary Theory & Criticism
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Author: Mary Jo Salter ISBN: 9780385349802
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: September 17, 2013
Imprint: Knopf Language: English
Author: Mary Jo Salter
ISBN: 9780385349802
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: September 17, 2013
Imprint: Knopf
Language: English

A beautiful collection of verse––both light and dark, elegiac and affirmative––from one of our most admired poets.
 
The title Nothing by Design is taken from Salter’s villanelle “Complaint for Absolute Divorce,” in which we’re asked to entertain the thought of a no-fault universe. The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied as “Our Friends the Enemy,” about the Christmas football match between German and British soldiers in 1914; “The Afterlife,” in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve the dead; and “Voice of America,” where Salter returns to the Saint Petersburg of her exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as counterpoint to another series entitled “Bed of Letters,” in which Salter addresses the end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness and loss in our lives.

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A beautiful collection of verse––both light and dark, elegiac and affirmative––from one of our most admired poets.
 
The title Nothing by Design is taken from Salter’s villanelle “Complaint for Absolute Divorce,” in which we’re asked to entertain the thought of a no-fault universe. The wary search for peace, personal and public, is a constant theme in poems as varied as “Our Friends the Enemy,” about the Christmas football match between German and British soldiers in 1914; “The Afterlife,” in which Egyptian tomb figurines labor to serve the dead; and “Voice of America,” where Salter returns to the Saint Petersburg of her exiled friend, the late Joseph Brodsky. A section of charming light verse serves as counterpoint to another series entitled “Bed of Letters,” in which Salter addresses the end of a long marriage. Artfully designed, with a highly intentional music, these poems movingly give form to the often unfathomable, yet very real, presence of nothingness and loss in our lives.

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