Background
Salter, Mary Jo was born on August 15, 1954 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Albert Gregory and Lormina (Paradise) Salter.
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Mary Jo Salter’s sparkling new collection, Open Shutters, 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?” Open Shutters 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. Darkness 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. Fittingly, 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. Open Shutters is the achievement of a remarkable poet, whose concerns and stylistic range continue to grow, encompassing ever larger themes, becoming ever more open.
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This “wholly attractive volume” that brings together twenty-five years of “elegantly shaped and voiced creations” (William Pritchard, The Boston Globe) offers a generous sampling of Mary Jo Salter’s five previous award-winning volumes and a collection of superb new poems. A mid-career retrospective of one of the major poets of her generation.
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A third collection of poems highlights tones of playfulness, wisdom, compassion, and profundity while following a woman's deeply personal journeys through love, family, place, and time. Reprint.
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Salter, Mary Jo was born on August 15, 1954 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States. Daughter of Albert Gregory and Lormina (Paradise) Salter.
Bachelor cum laude, Harvard University, 1976. Master of Arts, Cambridge University, 1978.
She received her Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University in 1976 and her Master of Arts from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest. She has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic.
From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and was, from 1995 to 2007, a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.
She has two daughters, Emily and Hilary Leithauser. She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.
"Tromp l"Oeil", Blue Flower Arts
"A Kiss in Space and A Rainbow Over the Seine".
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Married Brad Leithauser, 1980. Children: Emily Salter, Hilary Garner.