Timestamp: The Daily Practice of Poetry (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781732595644)

from W.S. Di Piero's introduction:

"Regarding our public life, [David Breskin] spares no one. He voices a sharp, unending outrage over political hypocrisies. The political in poetry, I believe, is expressed not by exploiting hot topics but by expressing, with all of poetry's resources, fear and anxiety and rare exhilaration over the body politic, which includes us all and gives Breskin's use of 'we' an earned global consequence...And yet for all this the poems carry an affectionate lyricism for the personal life, especially the kind of private grieving that mocks the wicked frivolities of politicians' speech...A true citizen-poet, he takes the reader to extremes, to considerations of the nature of our joy and our darkness, private and public. His imagination documents reality. His documentarian instincts are strong indeed, but the poems don't reiterate the actual, they reimagine it. They're also saturated with our global moment, with White House evils, Gaza, a burning planet, dire digital technologies, California wildfires, Tinder and Bumble and drone warfare and many other calendar jolts. All along the way he stays loyal to what one poem calls 'just plain miracles.'"

Author: David Breskin
ISBN-10: 173259564X
ISBN-13: 9781732595644
Publisher: Canisy Press
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2026
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 8.97h x 6.20w x 0.72d