Pause for Breath - by Robyn Sarah (Paperback)

About the Book

This collection of poems constitute meditations on the times and on time itself.

Book Synopsis

Diverse in subject, style and mood and rich in contrasts - from the lyrical to the rhetorical, from the public and collective to the personal and private - the poems in Pause for Breath are a meditation on the times and on time itself, sounding the human condition at a moment of world-change.

Review Quotes

"The vigour gets into Sarah's rhythms and rhymes, as always, but they play here against a melancholic sense, as in blues music."—Canadian Literature

"Her precise descriptive siftings...promote a vision of abundance as composed of luminous bits and pieces that never take up more room than they need."—Arc Poetry Magazine

"Robyn Sarah's poems in Pause for Breath engage the textures of daily life rather than philosophy."— Dr. Bert Almon

About the Author

Robyn Sarah: Robyn Sarah is the author of eight poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a book of essays on poetry. Her writing has appeared widely in Canada and the United States, and her poems have been anthologized in Fifteen Canadian Poets x 2 and x 3, The Bedford Introduction to Literature, The Norton Anthology of Poetry and in Garrison Keillor's Good Poems for Hard Times.