What Solitude Sees in Me
Uncollected Poems 1976-2023
Published on 10. June 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
106 pages
978-1-956375-36-7 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 210 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
141 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-956375-36-7 (9781956375367)
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Person
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.