Pause for Breath

“So assured and musical is the hand that shaped them that these poems tend to memorize themselves, as though they had always formed part of our experience.” —Eric Ormsby

"[Her poems] illuminate the reader's privacy without destroying the poet's. And elegant play is going on even in the most acutely painful moments of clarity, a play of pure energy." —Margaret Avison

“Her exquisite poems are worth making much about for their lyrical precision, indeed their wisdom. Sarah can write well in any form, including prose and free verse, but her most appealing poems are those in which quiet wordplay flirts with formal rigor? [Her poems] give me that much-sought-after feeling that I'm in the hands of a real poet rather than one of the slap-dash whiners who make most of the noise these days… Plenty of poets have written about history, faith, and family life, but few contemporaries have done it with such grace.” —David Mason, The Hudson Review