Description:
The author shares a collection of musings full of insight and whimsy on the conundrums of poetic art. She begins by asking herself why poetry exists, what it does for us, and why we're afraid of it, and concludes with a poem thanking those who have driven through the dark to attend a reading, with many delights in between.
Brief description:
Joyce Sutphen was raised on a farm in Stearns County, Minnesota. She is a professor emeritus of English at Gustavus Adolphus College and served as Minnesota's poet laureate from 2011 to 2021. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, among them That Other Life, This Long Winter, and Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems.