Overview

In this collection, Miriam Sagan publishes some of her finest and most peculiar work from the past half-century, together for the first time. From the Introduction: ""I was finding poems that I liked, and that were meaningful to me, that had never appeared in any book. And why was that? My first husband, Robert Winson, was a small press editor and a great reader. He used to criticize my manuscripts by saying that I always left out quirky or off-brand work. 'You just include capital-P Poems, ' he'd complain. Of course I ignored this feedback. ""Until now.""

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""Lyric, imagistic, and visionary, full of life and ever conscious of death, the poems in Miriam Sagan's What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023 roam inner and outer worlds with, as often as not, a motel room for home base. An uneclipsed poet of eclipses and the moon in general; the turn of seasons, winter in particular; geological as well as diurnal time; and all varieties of the metaphysical, Sagan writes with a deliberately homespun, often short line that lures us out to reel us in. The poems in this career-spanning volume leap the cosmos and stick their landing. I am grateful to have them under one roof."" - Carol Moldaw, author of Go Figure ""What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023 is a selected volume of Miriam Sagan's personal and (mostly) unpublished archives that are just now seeing the light of day. A generous and illuminating tour of words to be sure, these rich and varied poems are a journey into her past, her language topographies, from Manhattan to Chaco Canyon and, predominantly, New Mexico. From the intimate ('the body burns into its own echo') to the expansive ('You are so deep into America you cannot get out'), these aren't previously rejected or neglected works so much as reconsiderations of the poet's lifelong spirited and lyrical terrains. They include family, curiosity (of course), and solitude. What solitude sees in her, the rest of us see as well. Many of her passions and formative experiences are explored in this beautiful and revelatory collection."" - John Macker, author of Desert Threnody and Belated Mornings

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Miriam Sagan is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, fiction, and memoir. She is a two-time winner of the New Mexico/Arizona Book Award as well as a recipient of the City of Santa Fe Mayor's Award for Excellence in the Arts and a New Mexico Literary Arts Gratitude Award. She has been a writer-in-residence at four U.S. national parks, Yaddo, MacDowell, Kura Studio in Japan, Gullkistan in Iceland, and a dozen other remote and interesting places. She works with text and sculptural installation as part of the mother/daughter creative team Maternal Mitochondria (with Isabel Winson-Sagan) in venues ranging from RV parks to galleries. She founded the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College and directed it until her retirement. Her poetry has been set to music for the Santa Fe Women's Chorus, incised on stoneware for two haiku pathways, and projected as video inside an abandoned building during the pandemic under the auspices of Vital Spaces.

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