Bread of the Moment: Poems

by David Sanders

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A collection of poems about time, solitude, and wisdom that leads readers to hover between acceptance of and alienation from our fragility.

Bread of the Moment, the follow-up to David Sanders' Compass and Clock (Swallow Press, 2016), devotes keen attention to the porous nature of the past and how the unbidden evidence of ordinary life pervades the world, provoking a spectrum of moments from which to draw meaning and find solace. These poems, characterized by a mix of free and formal verse, depict quiet days at home or in nature, as well as close calls and brushes with death: chronic illness, a house fire, a car crushed by a boulder.

In this way, these poems amplify the fragility of the commonplace, a mystery from which we are, amid the noise of our everyday lives, sometimes estranged. Through this exploration, Sanders constructs a precarious balance between alienation and acceptance, striking a note at once recognizable and new.

  • ISBN10 0804012334
  • ISBN13 9780804012331
  • Publish Date 2 November 2021 (first published 19 October 2021)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Swallow Press
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 70
  • Language English