Perhaps all anxiety might derive from a fixation on moments - an inability to accept life as ongoing.
Sarah MangusoMy existence shrank from an arrow of light pointing into the future forever to a speck of light that was the present moment. I got better at living in that point of light, making the world into that point. I paid close attention to it. I loved it very much.
Sarah MangusoI don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That said, The Guardians isn't poetry. It's prose.
Sarah Manguso