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Tough, urgent, surprising, these poems are both necessary and comforting.</div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Maria Mazziotti Gillan</I></div> <div> <I>Director of Creative Writing at SUNY Binghamton</I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Sarah Jefferis's poems<I> in Forgetting the Salt</I> combine dazzling metaphor with an undiminishable lyricism; here is a twenty-first century Romantic worthy of the calling. In her poems, one encounters a mind that dallies with the surreal, and yet always returns to<U> terra firma</U>. Like the poet Ai with whom she shares much, Jefferis's poems sparkle with their odd associations and radical suffusions--in one marvelous poem, a pyromaniac "harvests the sweet flames" as all is engulfed. In another lyric, we contemplate the gestation period of an elephant, finding in its protracted struggle our own rude calculus. Jefferis, thank goodness, astonishes as she delights; and yet, and always, there is a wise woman-centered sassy spirit. If she has traveled far from the church, she is never far from revelation. This is a stunning collection of poems--smart, elegant, and yes, fiery.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Kenneth A. McClane</I></div> <div> <I>W.E.B. DuBois Professor of Literature, Cornell University</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Garamond" > </FONT>    <I>Forgetting the Salt </I>is a collection of lyrical family narrative poems that critiques the notion of a post-colonial America. This book illuminates how personal sexual violence is a microcosm for the carnage of the 21st century. Many of the poems take their lead from Coleridge's poetic ideology: <I>Poetry Reveals itself in the balance or reconciliation of opposite or discordant qualities. </I>The opening poem, “Colonial Williamsburg,” reveals some of these discordant qualities by juxtaposing a childhood memory of watching a reenactment of a slave auction against my mother's demand that I become properly mannered for Cotillion dance lessons. In this poem and others, I take risks in image and form. I write poems that examine what it was like to grow up in a town grappling with its history-a town that in my mind, is stuck in the 18th century. </div> <bR> <div>      These poems lament the South I have forgotten while simultaneously trying to cast out the South that is within me. When I write, southern metaphors, southern food images, and southern rules and rituals all arise out of me. These poems unravel the “natural laws,” of the South. The title poem, “Forgetting the Salt,” does not refer to a clumsy chef who has forgotten the most basic of her seasonings, but rather it calls up the notion that we must all be mindful of our historical longings. We are only partially present in the time in which we live, or as the final line reads, “we are not of ourselves in the moments we inhabit.” </div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>Sarah Jefferis</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> Sarah Jefferis completed her M.F.A. at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York in 1999. She has a B.A. and an M.A. from Hollins University. Her work has appeared in <I>The Healing Muse, </I>accomplice. org, <I>The Cream City Review, The Comstock Review, The Hollins Critic, The Mississippi Review, Icon, Icarus, The New Coin, The Perspectives on Multiculturalism and Diversity Journal, The Beacon Street Review, </I>and <I>The Naughyde Literary Journal.</I>”  She is currently a Visiting Senior Lecturer at Cornell University. She resides in Ithaca, NY with her partner and their daughter.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B><IMG SRC="2532c750.jpg" border=0 width="300" height="373" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>From the book:</B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia</B></div> <bR> <div> I. </div> <div> What I know about America I learned when I saw June</div> <div> And Ezekial shackled-swollen wrists and ankles,</div> <bR> <div> head down, mouths sewn shut, and Mr. Johnson</div> <div> hollering out dollar amounts to visitors from across the oceans;</div> <bR> <div> and my ten-year-old self asking my mama why</div> <div> the Sunday School teacher was selling my friends, </div> <bR> <div> and who would buy them, and how she said: </div> <div> <I>child, for history of course, in the name of history, </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>and besides it gives them a summer job to remember, </I></div> <div> <I>and a way to support their habits. </I></div> <bR> <div> II. </div> <div> What I know about America I learned from </div> <div> the civil war boy-a member of the reenactment troupe-</div> <bR> <div> who on an August night gave me Whitman</div> <div> and an invitation to his tent, but not a rifle lesson</div> <bR> <div> and I tried to refuse, but my protests were rain in a basin. </div> <bR> <div> III. </div> <div> What I know about America I learned from the Bible</div> <div> or was it Shakespeare-both large books</div> <bR> <div> my mama dropped on my head to teach me Southern posture, </div> <div> to manner me, prepare me for Cotillion, to dance with boys, </div> <bR> <div> to appease them, and as I walked around our filthy ranch house, </div> <div> mama would call out: <I>What is John 3:16? </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>Or what happened to Job when he refused to answer God? </I></div> <div> And it all boiled in my head, so I was convinced</div> <bR> <div> Ophelia lay down with Moses, Cain really was Romeo's </div> <div> friend, and Elijah opened the door to Hamlet again and again. </div> <bR> <div> IV. </div> <bR> <div> What I know about America I learned from Pocahontas</div> <div> who told me not to fear tents, or the bellies of whales, </div> <bR> <div> or auction blocks. Pocahontas, who taught me how to kiss</div> <div> a girl, how to practice on the John Smith dolls</div> <bR> <div> just before you stick pins in their heads. </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>The Way To Attain </B></div> <div> <I>for A. R. Ammons</I></div> <bR> <div> Did you know enough to know the light</div> <div> was chasing in the hall when you said <I>welcome</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>home Sarah, I chose you. </I>I had no idea what it meant</div> <div> to be picked--not apart or picked at, </div> <bR> <div> rather selected for something grand</div> <div> which I could not name. </div> <bR> <div> There are thousands of Sarah's who want. </div> <div> I was left on the gym wall even </div> <bR> <div> as gloves were handed out, bats</div> <div> dusted off, the fat one who the teacher</div> <bR> <div> didn't recall. <I>Are you new here?</I></div> <div> I lived in the same ranch house all my life. </div> <bR> <div> Same four walls with Manwich </div> <div> and Kraft on Tuesdays. </div> <bR> <div> But the time rate of change is the definition</div> <div> of acceleration.  Or this:</div> <bR> <div> a pound or two, the ear of the line, a heart. </div> <div> Who selected you the morning</div> <bR> <div> you left calling death</div> <div> <I>the way to attain the speed of light</I>. </div> <bR> <div> What light at what speed </div> <div> could possibly hold. </div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="forgetting"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Forgetting</B></div> <div> <B>                </B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>the</B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="7" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>Salt</B></FONT></div> <div> is an 88 page hand-stitched paper book w/spine.</div> <div> $16.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE           <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Palatino Linotype" ><A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></FONT></div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada       <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Forgetting the Salt"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-27"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries           <B> <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Forgetting the Salt"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="08-27"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </B></div> <bR> <div>  <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>