Intense poetry about family life, told in a mature voice by a veteran poet of the Great Plains, Marjorie Saiser. Poet Judith Minty writes: "I am deeply moved by these extraordinary poems about giving birth and dying, about what it means to live life with dignity.  They grow out of the heart of America, out of the landscape of small town and prairie, out of the hearts of people who look you straight in the eye.  You dare not turn away, for the lessons to learn here are compelling.  Marjorie Saiser is not only a wise and compassionate writer-- her poems shine with details of the things of this earth, they pulse with the earth's very rhythms".

Bones of a Very Fine Hand

Literature & Fiction

Saiser, Marjorie

Poetry

THE BACKWATERS PRESS

2002 Nebraska Book Award Widely-known Nebraska poet Marge Saiser's unique poems deal with love and loss through a lifetime of careful reckoning.

Lost in Seward County

Marjorie Saiser's strong, clear language makes the reader feel at home in her poems. Dealing with all the ways love goes right and wrong, this collection honors the challenges of holding firm to who we really are, as well as our connections to the natural world. The Track the Whales Make includes poems from Saiser's seven previous books, along with new ones. Her poetry originates from the everyday things we might overlook in the hurry of our daily routines, giving us a chance to stop and appreciate the little things, while wrapped in her comforting diction. Because the poems come from ordinary life, there is humor alongside happiness and sadness, the mixed bag we survive or create, day by day. &nbsp;

The Track the Whales Make: New and Selected Poems (Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry)

NEBRASKA

Poetry. "Marge Saiser's poetry is wise and generous and altogether genuine. No poet in this country is better at writing about love and, in a sense, all of her poems are in some way about love"—Ted Kooser.

Beside You at the Stoplight

2017 Nebraska Book Award This new collection by Nebraska poet Marjorie Saiser explores the notion of witnessing. Particularly in our technological age, when we have access to international news as it happens, the question comes up: what responsibility do individuals—including those living in relatively quiet middle America—have in regard to world events? The poems in I Have Nothing to Say about Fire reference autobiographical elements: marriage, children, parents, in-laws, etc., but they also reference global tragedy: war, terrorism, genocide. As we experience our own personal losses and triumphs, what relationships should we strive for with family, friends, neighbors, and the strangers around us, particularly as their narratives push them forward into our and/or the public’s consciousness? In this book, Marjorie Saiser explores these essential questions and offers potential answers that may help all of us.

I Have Nothing to Say about Fire

2019 Nebraska Book Award The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with family and culture. The poems range in quick flourishes of conventional subjects rendered in exquisite imagery and observations to everyday occurrences that are suddenly spiked with clear focus and complex movements. Saiser's poems are intricate and graceful in their treatments of numerous subjects, including landscape and evening, grocery stores and roadways, death and birth, love and loss, where sudden realizations seem at once deep and clear and natural. The voice in these poems is fluid and sure.

The Woman in the Moon

Arts & Photography

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