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Compass and Clock

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Description for Compass and Clock Paperback. Num Pages: 88 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.

The poems of Compass and Clock take their inspiration from the intersection of the natural world and the human, exploring the landscapes in which those intersections occur. Those landscapes range from David Sanders’s native midwestern countryside to the caves of Lascaux and an enchanted lake where relics of lost lives are washed ashore. Yet, the true source of the poems’ vitality is Sanders’s attention to the missed or misread moments, those times when the act fails, and the perceived clashes with the actual.
Here, the satisfying pairing of elegance and vulnerability invites the reader to tour those uncanny landscapes ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
88
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Ohio, United States
ISBN
9780804011709
SKU
V9780804011709
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About David Sanders
David Sanders is the author of two poetry collections from Swallow Press, Compass and Clock and Bread of the Moment. For twenty years he was the general editor of the Hollis Summers Poetry Prize, and he was the founding editor of Poetry News in Review. His poems and translations have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies. He is a native ... Read more

Reviews for Compass and Clock
“David Sanders is a poet of craft and beauty…. There're no transgressions here, no showboating, or imbalance. These are poems of simple pure vision, calm poems, motivated by a wish to say what is seen, truthfully and clearly.”
Washington Independent Review of Books
“David Sanders is a truly talented and subtle formal poet, but his formal hand is ... Read more

Goodreads reviews for Compass and Clock


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