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...connections like these that make Salter's poems so refreshing and interesting. You might see the Watson connection immediately, but Salter also weaves in Niagara falls, the color crimson and Braille. In this and the poem before, "A Jewel of the World," these connections are dense and more intellectually challenging than any others, forcing us to see far beyond the surfaces of things...
...book ends with the title poem," A Kiss in Space." We can see how this piece grew from a newspaper clipping about two cosmonauts, one gently kissing the other's cheek in zero gravity. As they return from space, we return from the book, with a felt promise that everything around us has meaning, connections, links. And this new perception leads us back to a new reality, back to "Whatever Earth has become...
...read, the poems become richer and richer. Associations are drawn behind the images, and stories begin to emerge. Sometimes there is only a hint of that story. One poem is about the old movie "Titanic," most of it describing a family watching the movie, laughing at the film's melodrama. Then the poem ends with the narrator sensing a leak in the house, a crack that "is slowly widening to claim each of us in random order, and we start to rock in one another's arms...
...book is divided into three parts: A Jewel in the World, Alternating Currents and A Kiss in Space. The book crescendoes to its center, the poems becoming more and more complex and more demanding. The center part, Alternating Currents, is actually a single longer poem. In it we see Helen Keller and her teacher, Sherlock Homes and Dr. Watson, Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant Watson. Among these pairs run parallels, threads that wind through all three stories...
...connections like these that make Salter's poems so refreshing and interesting. You might see the Watson connection immediately, but Salter also weaves in Niagara falls, the color crimson and Braille. In this and the poem before, "A Jewel of the World," these connections are dense and more intellectually challenging than any others, forcing us to see far beyond the surfaces of things...