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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Cameo Appearance: Poems

Cameo Appearance: Poems

Salter, Mary Jo

Hardcover

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $28.00

PREORDER - Expected ship date October 6, 2026

ISBN10: 0593804767
ISBN13: 9780593804766
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 112
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.38
Language: English
From award winner Mary Jo Salter, new poems touching on the wonders of ordinary life and the brevity and preciousness of our time on earth

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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