Salter, Mary Jo

The Norton anthology of poetry ( Book )
18 editions published between 1970 and 2005 in English and held by 1,575 libraries worldwide
Over three editions, The Norton Anthology of Poetry has become the classroom standard for the study of poetry in English. A wide and deep quarry of poems from the medieval period to the present, it is a book instructors rely on as a uniquely flexible teaching anthology, and one that students delve into well beyond college. Now, responding to new scholarship, classroom suggestions, and the vitality and diversity of poetry itself, the Fourth Edition introduces a wealth of new poets and poems as well as thoroughly revised editorial apparatus.

The moon comes home by Mary Jo Salter ( Book )
2 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 724 libraries worldwide
On the trip home by car from Grandmother's house, a young child observes the moon.

A phone call to the future : new and selected poems by Mary Jo Salter ( Book )
3 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 489 libraries worldwide
New poems from one of the major poets of her generation, along with a selection of the best from previous collections. In Salter's poetry we have a unique blend of domestic drama and the grittier wider world. In the title poem, she reimagines the technological simplicities and humanistic verities of the past with a disorienting detachment. Here are poems imbued with the violence of modern life, and others that bring a witty luminosity to peacocks in the park, to shoe-shine "thrones" at the airport, and to poetry itself. A tender elegy for the poet Anthony Hecht is followed by poems about the Baroque sculptor Bernini and the German Expressionist painter August Macke, which add to Salter's already impressive list of poems about image-making. Although in many of the poems Salter looks back wistfully at what is lost, she also sets her sights on the future: "Lord, surprise me with even more to miss."--Publisher description.

Open shutters : poems by Mary Jo Salter ( Book )
8 editions published between 2003 and 2006 in English and held by 486 libraries worldwide
Salter's sparkling new collection of poems leads readers through works that let readers view life from a different perspective. From dark poems to light verse highlighted with wit and grace, this collection delivers Salter's most serious and her most playful work.

A kiss in space : poems by Mary Jo Salter ( Book )
6 editions published between 1999 and 2000 in English and held by 469 libraries worldwide
Poems on "long distances of the imagination," family, films, France, and art. "The book's centerpiece, 'Alternating currents,' juxtaposes real historical figures like Alexander Graham Bell and Helen Keller with their fictional contemporaries Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson."--Jacket.

Unfinished painting : poems by Mary Jo Salter ( Book )
5 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 435 libraries worldwide

Henry Purcell in Japan : poems by Mary Jo Salter ( Book )
4 editions published in 1985 in English and held by 347 libraries worldwide

Sunday skaters : poems by Mary Jo Salter ( Book )
4 editions published between 1994 and 1996 in English and held by 256 libraries worldwide
In her first collection since the Lamont Prize-winning Unfinished Painting, Mary Jo Salter gives us subtle, witty, and moving poems that reflect a woman's travels through love, family, time, and place. Here are a pair of beautiful lovers on the Boulevard du Montparnasse and a woman in "nice-mother shorts" buying ice cream for six little boys and pondering the question "What do women want?" Here's a warm impassioned evening in Rome and a series of cloudy crystalline afternoons in Iceland.

Selected poems by Amy Clampitt ( Book )
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 152 libraries worldwide

Wreckage by Mary Jo Salter ( Book )
1 edition published in 1999 in English and held by 13 libraries worldwide