Square Inch Hours
Poems
1 February 2019
Description
“Sherod Santos brilliantly negotiates the provinces of poetry and prose, of imagination and memoir.… As enigmatic as Borges, and beautiful in a way only Santos can be.” —David Baker
A poetic meditation, Square Inch Hours draws on elements from fiction, memoir, daybook and reverie, piecing together moments in the aftermath of a breakdown. With adamant attentiveness, the speaker turns his focus to reality in its minute particulars: the palsied hand of a grocery clerk; copulating flies on a windowsill; a deep gouge, like a bullet hole, in his apartment door. The title Square Inch Hours expresses his urge to capture each moment, as in the square of a photograph. Through intense sensual perception, he begins to reconnect with the world.
Also By: Sherod Santos 
The Intricated Soul: New and Selected Poems
Paperback, 2012
“Santos captures moments of lyric intensity and beauty that feel as fresh today as when they were written.”—New Criterion
Greek Lyric Poetry: A New Translation
Paperback, 2006
Winner of the Umhoefer Prize: "A magnificent achievement, better, more animated, buoyant, and richly articulated than any other version I know."—Anthony Hecht
The Perishing: Poems
Paperback, 2004
"[Santos] articulates some of the most moving truths we can know about our shared humanity."—Washington Post
The Pilot Star Elegies: Poems
Paperback, 2000
A National Book Award finalist for 1999.
The City of Women: A Sequence of Poems and Prose
Paperback, 1994
"Beautifully rendered.... Santos's greatest accomplishment here is not that he provides answers for the unanswerable, but that he convinces readers that love creates ‘words whose syllables we are...
