Zoom Rooms

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