{"product_id":"9780804040709","title":"Compass and Clock: Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe poems of \u003ci\u003eCompass and Clock\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Yet, the true source of the poems’ vitality is Sanders’s attention to the missed or misread moments, those times when the act fails, and the perceived clashes with the actual.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Here, the satisfying pairing of elegance and vulnerability invites the reader to tour those uncanny landscapes from which one returns irrevocably changed?—?refreshed, but wistful. In a review of his earlier limited-edition work, \u003ci\u003eTime in Transit,\u003c\/i\u003e the \u003ci\u003eHudson Review\u003c\/i\u003e called David Sanders “a poet to watch.” With the Swallow Press publication of \u003ci\u003eCompass and Clock,\u003c\/i\u003e we have the realization of that promise.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118771388656,"sku":"9780804040709","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780804040709_p0.jpg?v=1763728425","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780804040709","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}