{"product_id":"the-track-the-whales-make-new-and-selected-poems-paperback-softback-9781496228123","title":"The Track the Whales Make; New and Selected Poems (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496228123","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Track the Whales Make\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew and Selected Poems\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMarjorie Saiser (Author), Ted Kooser (Introduction by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496228123\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 October 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.312 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eCairn\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“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\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cdiv\u003e“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 \u003ci\u003eLetter from a Place I’ve Never Been: New and Collected Poems, 1986–2020\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e2022 High Plains Book Award Winner in Poetry\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Track the Whales Make\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Introduction by Ted Kooser\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eI Could Taste It: New Poems\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Shirt I Would Have Bought You\u003cbr\u003e Sometimes I Remember to Watch\u003cbr\u003e When You Write the Story\u003cbr\u003e We Wait for the Trogon\u003cbr\u003e So Bad I Could Taste It\u003cbr\u003e I Had a Marriage in Those Days\u003cbr\u003e What I Shouted and He Shouted\u003cbr\u003e Charmed by the Dirt Road\u003cbr\u003e To the Cattle in the Dream\u003cbr\u003e The Moon Is a Swan\u003cbr\u003e This Is How I Bow Down in Homage\u003cbr\u003e Kindness Scraped Up the Money\u003cbr\u003e It’\u003cbr\u003es a Small Breath\u003cbr\u003e Not Enough Space in Storage Device\u003cbr\u003e Hope Springs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eLearning to Swim\u003c\/i\u003e, 2019\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Weren’\u003cbr\u003et We Beautiful\u003cbr\u003e I Save My Love\u003cbr\u003e Every Last Thing Is Transitory\u003cbr\u003e Plastic Bag on the Lawn\u003cbr\u003e Edith Porath Nelsen, You Signed Your Quilt\u003cbr\u003e After the Divorce the Soccer Game\u003cbr\u003e What She Taught Me\u003cbr\u003e To the Author I’\u003cbr\u003em Reading at Night\u003cbr\u003e This Year I Did Not\u003cbr\u003e This Is the Photo of My Father Before\u003cbr\u003e He Taught Me to Drive\u003cbr\u003e I Pretend I Can Remember\u003cbr\u003e The One with Violets in Her Lap\u003cbr\u003e For the Record\u003cbr\u003e The Citrus Thief\u003cbr\u003e Insomnia Is a Streetlight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eThe Woman in the Moon\u003c\/i\u003e, 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Nobody Bird\u003cbr\u003e My Love With His Saw Has Taken the Cedar Down\u003cbr\u003e When Life Seems a To-Do List\u003cbr\u003e Each Wrong Choice Was a Horse I Saddled\u003cbr\u003e What I Think My Real Self Likes\u003cbr\u003e My Mother the Child\u003cbr\u003e What He Needed\u003cbr\u003e Final Shirt\u003cbr\u003e Despair Woke Me\u003cbr\u003e Ah, Charles, If You Could Have\u003cbr\u003e What Did You Think Love Would Be?\u003cbr\u003e About That Smart Thinly-Veiled Stuff\u003cbr\u003e My Daughter Tells Me She Loves Me\u003cbr\u003e Green Ash\u003cbr\u003e My Notes in Margins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eI Have Nothing to Say about Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, 2016\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Track the Whales Make\u003cbr\u003e She Gives Me the Watch Off Her Arm\u003cbr\u003e The Story, Part of It\u003cbr\u003e How I Left You\u003cbr\u003e Bad News, Good News\u003cbr\u003e Thanksgiving for Two\u003cbr\u003e We Disagree\u003cbr\u003e Let Me Think of the Frost That Will Crack Our Bones\u003cbr\u003e Draw What Is There\u003cbr\u003e Those Pieces We Carry\u003cbr\u003e What I Think My Father Loved\u003cbr\u003e It Does Not Have to Be Worth the Dying\u003cbr\u003e Last Day of Kindergarten\u003cbr\u003e For My Daughter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eLosing the Ring in the River\u003c\/i\u003e, 2013\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Clara Says I Do\u003cbr\u003e Clara Loses the Ring\u003cbr\u003e When I Have Hurt Him as Much as I Can\u003cbr\u003e Potato Soup\u003cbr\u003e I Was New and Shiny\u003cbr\u003e Playing My Cards\u003cbr\u003e Let Me Be the First Snake of Spring\u003cbr\u003e To the Moon in the Morning\u003cbr\u003e Note to My Father After All These Years\u003cbr\u003e I Leaned in Close\u003cbr\u003e Take, Eat\u003cbr\u003e This Is My Body\u003cbr\u003e You and I, the Cranes, the River\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eBeside You at the Stoplight\u003c\/i\u003e, 2010\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Pulling Up Beside My Husband at the Stoplight\u003cbr\u003e Weekends, Sleeping In\u003cbr\u003e Even the Alphabet\u003cbr\u003e On the 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a Little Girl\u003cbr\u003e Night Flight\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eBones of a Very Fine Hand\u003c\/i\u003e, 1999\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Resurrection\u003cbr\u003e The Green Coat\u003cbr\u003e Keeping My Mother Warm\u003cbr\u003e Saying Yes on the Road\u003cbr\u003e Perfume Counter, Dillard’\u003cbr\u003es\u003cbr\u003e The World Was Not Enough\u003cbr\u003e Loving Her in the Mountains\u003cbr\u003e I Let My Daughter Down\u003cbr\u003e Cutting My Hair\u003cbr\u003e Washing the Walls\u003cbr\u003e Taking the Baby to the Marsh\u003cbr\u003e Shopping\u003cbr\u003e Storm at Night\u003cbr\u003e I Want to Create\u003cbr\u003e The Last Thing He Said\u003cbr\u003e Today\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand 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