Results for "Sutphen, Joyce"

Joyce Sutphen’s evocations of life on a small farm, coming of age in the late 1960s, and traveling and searching for balance in a very modern world are both deeply personal and familiar. Readers from Maine to Minnesota and beyond will recognize themselves, their parents, aunts and uncles, and neighb... Read More about Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems (Ted Kooser Contemporary Poetry)

Many of the poems in Naming the Stars are about the difficulty of balancing the desires of one self with those of another and the problem of solving the arguments between the body and the soul. The collection's perspective often shifts as the poet wonders how to tell a story that she is not certain ... Read More about Naming the Stars: Poems

Poems that deftly draw on the sonnet form to follow the speaker’s romantic life.That Other Life is a narrative about how relationships fail and succeed—or rather, about how the narrator fares on the changeable course of love and domestic commerce. Most of the poems in Joyce Sutphen’s twelfth book ar... Read More about That Other Life (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series )

A luminous collection of modern metaphysical poems.This Long Winter contains poems that are meditations on life in the rural world: reflections on hard work, aging, and the ravages of time—erasures that Sutphen attempts to ameliorate with her careful attention to language. These poems move us f... Read More about This Long Winter (The Cox Family Poetry Chapbook Series)

Poetry. AFTER WORDS, like First Words (Red Dragonfly Press, 2010), is both memoir and elegy, but the losses are more apparent in this volume, as the author knowingly celebrates lives that have ended and things that have nearly disappeared. The deaths of a sister, of beloved uncles, aunts, and grandp... Read More about After Words