What Solitude Sees in Me: Uncollected Poems 1976-2023 - by Miriam Sagan

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 (1959-1995), 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.”

Praise for What Solitude Sees in Me

“Lyric, imagistic, and visionary, full of life and ever conscious of death…. 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

“A generous and illuminating tour of words…. From the intimate to the expansive, these [are] reconsiderations of the poet’s lifelong spirited and lyrical terrains. What solitude sees in her, the rest of us see as well.”
—John Macker, author of Desert Threnody and Belated Mornings