Books by David Sanders

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.

The book consists of two hundred new poems from David Sanders, including You Have Become Inside of Me.You have become inside of me.There is no moment when it became.Like a raindrop that falls into seaYou have become inside of me.I no longer understand the shame.We have a passion that has burst into flame.Two men who love do love the same.You have become inside of me.Silently, endlessly, I hear your name.Like a whisper that ripples in the seaYou have become inside of me.

Two hundred new poems from David Sanders including:Love Is Always In Your Heart Love is always in your heart. In a busy world that tends to isolateWe all feel, at times, like a spare part. But love is always in your heart. If you can't feel it, you can't relate, Please don't despair or hesitate, It's still there-ready for your next date. Love is always pretty smart. It's always there, always in wait. It's the place it gets its start: Love is always in your heart.

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.