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12%OFFSherod Santos - Square Inch Hours - 9780393254983 - V9780393254983
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Square Inch Hours

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Description for Square Inch Hours Hardcover. A vividly rendered collection tracing the aftermath of a breakdown and the struggle to reconnect with the realities of daily life. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .

In the manner of a poetic meditation, Square Inch Hours draws on elements from fiction, memoir, daybook, and reverie, piecing together moments that follow in the aftermath of a breakdown.

Writing from an area outside psychology or personal history, the intensely solitary speaker relates the experience of reengaging with the world. With an adamant attentiveness, he turns his focus to observing reality in its minutest particulars: the expression on the face of a random passerby; the palsied hand of a grocery clerk; copulating flies on a windowsill; a deep gouge, like a bullet hole, in his apartment door. How he ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393254983
SKU
V9780393254983
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sherod Santos
Sherod Santos is the author of seven books of poetry. A National Book Award finalist, he received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Chicago, where he works in an outreach program for the homeless.

Reviews for Square Inch Hours
"Subtle, reflective. . . . These diorama-like texts, which locate a range of human feelings in the sundry details of the everyday, are something of a contemporary Book of Disquiet."
Publishers Weekly "In Square Inch Hours Sherod Santos brilliantly negotiates the provinces of poetry and prose, of imagination and memoir, in devastating documents that range from fragments to sustained ... Read more

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