Pause for Breath

by Robyn Sarah

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.

88 pages, ebook

First published September 15, 2009

About the author

Robyn Sarah was born in New York City (1949) to Canadian parents, and has lived for most of her life in Montreal.

She is the author of eight poetry collections, two collections of short stories, and a collection of essays on poetry.

In 1976, with Fred Louder, she co-founded Villeneuve Publications and co-edited its poetry chapbook series which included first titles by August Kleinzahler and A.F. Moritz as well as her own 1981 chapbook, The Space Between Sleep and Waking.

Her poems have been widely anthologized in Canada and the United States and broadcast on The Writer's Almanac.

Reviews

[Sarah Paps · Rating 1 out of 5]

I loved the first collection I read by Sarah, My Shoes Are Killing Me, it is clearly the superior book. Maybe I went into this one expecting something similar and was disappointed since this collection is more lyrical and more on the abstract side of poetry. No poem was "bad" in any way, in fact, it seemed a lot of care was put into each one of them. However, I felt disconnected from the book and found that the pieces escaped me. Sometimes it could also just be a matter of timing. Maybe if I read it at a different time while in a different mood, it would have resonated with me better...