Pause for Breath

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.

"The vigour gets into Sarah's rhythms and rhymes, as always, but they play here against a melancholic sense, as in blues music."&#8212Canadian 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."&#8212Arc Poetry Magazine "Robyn Sarah's poems in Pause for Breath engage the textures of daily life rather than philosophy."— Dr. Bert Almon