The Track the Whales Make

New and Selected Poems

The Track the Whales Make
Ted Kooser, Marjorie Saiser
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h229 x 152mm - 200pg
1 Oct 2021 US
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9781496228123
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Marjorie Saiser' s strong, clear language makes the reader feel at home in her poems. Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, this collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to the natural world. The Track the Whales Make includes poems from Saiser' s seven previous books, along with new ones. Her poetry originates from the everyday things we might overlook in the hurry of our daily routines, giving us a chance to stop and appreciate the little things, while wrapped in her comforting diction. Because the poems come from ordinary life, there is humor alongside happiness and sadness, the mixed bag we survive or create, day by day.
"Marjorie Saiser is a poet of ephemera, a poet who looks east at sunset to watch subtle light changing: ' The glow is, and then is gone. ' And so is everyone and everything we love. Saiser tells this truth: ' Every last thing is transitory. ' She looks at the difficult moments, at the precious fleeting moments: ' That' s what it was like, though there is no record of it. / Let me be the record of it. ' When a whale' s flukes slip underwater, a trace shimmers for a fraction of a liquid second. That' s the moment of Saiser' s poetry, a poetry of generations of profound compassion, passed down. "-Peggy Shumaker, author of Cairn "Marjorie Saiser' s poetry is wise and generous and altogether genuine. No poet in this country is better at writing about love, and, in a sense, all of her poems are in some way about love. "-Ted Kooser, U. S. poet laureate, 2004-2006 "Marjorie Saiser writes, ' I wanted / the luminous coin, big sky over rooftops, / the celestial and the neighborhood. ' In these pages she finds both and gives them to us in an extraordinary volume of new and selected poems. With one poem, "Charmed by the Dirt Road," she explains generations of women. I move from delight to tears reading these brilliant, compassionate, and beautifully wrought poems. Saiser is a great poet. "-Hilda Raz, author of Letter from a Place I' ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986-2020
Marjorie Saiser is the author of seven previous books of poetry and coeditor of two anthologies. Her most recent books are Learning to Swim, The Woman in the Moon (Backwaters, 2018), and I Have Nothing to Say about Fire (Backwaters, 2016).
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ISBN-13: 9781496228123
Published: 1 Oct 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 200

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