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

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.”

This book will be published in June 2025. Preorders placed by May 31 will ship before official publication.

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