{"product_id":"9780375710148","title":"Open Shutters","description":"\u003cp\u003eMary Jo Salter’s sparkling new collection,\u003cb\u003e Open Shutters\u003c\/b\u003e, leads us into a world where things are often not what they seem. In the first poem, “Trompe l’Oeil,” the shadow-casting shutters on Genoese houses are made of paint only, an “open lie.” And yet “Who needs to be correct \/ more often than once a day? \/ Who needs real shadow more than play?”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOpen Shutters\u003c\/b\u003e also calls to mind the lens of a camera—in the villanelle “School Pictures” or in the stirring sequence “In the Guesthouse,” which, inspired by photographs of a family across three generations, offers at once a social history of America and a love story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDarkness and light interact throughout the book—in poems about September 11; about a dog named Shadow; about a blind centenarian who still pretends to read the paper; about a woman shaken by the death of her therapist. A section of light verse highlights the wit and grace that have long distinguished Salter’s most serious work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFittingly, the volume fools the eye once more by closing with “An Open Book,” in which a Muslim family praying at a funeral seek consolation in the pages formed by their upturned palms.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOpen Shutters \u003c\/b\u003eis the achievement of a remarkable poet, whose concerns and stylistic range continue to grow, encompassing ever larger themes, becoming ever more open.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012396990704,"sku":"9780375710148","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375710148_p0.jpg?v=1763691977","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375710148","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}