Square Inch Hours : Poems
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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 perceives is how he reconnects. The title, Square Inch Hours, expresses that impulse to capture each moment, as in the square of a photograph.
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- ISBN-13: 9780393254983
- ISBN-10: 0393254984
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Publish Date: July 2017
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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