Zoom Rooms av Mary Jo Salter

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<b>The timeless and timely intersect in poems about our unique historical moment, from the prizewinning poet.</b><br><br>In <i>Zoom Rooms</i>, Mary Jo Salter considers the strangeness of our recent existence, together with the enduring constants in our lives.<br> <br>The 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.