{"product_id":"carrying-water-to-the-field-new-and-selected-poems-9781496216366","title":"Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems","description":"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 neighbors in these poems, which move us from delight in keen description toward something like wisdom or solace in the things of this world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In addition to poems selected from the last twenty-five years, \u003ci\u003eCarrying Water to the Field\u003c\/i\u003e includes more than forty new poems on the themes of luck, hard work, and the ravages of time--erasures that Sutphen attempts to ameliorate with her careful attention to language and lyrical precision. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyce Sutphen \u003c\/b\u003egrew up on a farm in Stearns County, Minnesota. She is a professor emeritus of English at Gustavus Adolphus College and is Minnesota's poet laureate. She is the author of seven poetry collections, including \u003ci\u003eStraight Out of View\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eComing Back to the Body\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eNaming the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, and is a coeditor of \u003ci\u003eTo Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50527660671250,"sku":"9781496216366","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_16edda1c-3ce7-41f9-bb8a-7f6aa5d08bb2.jpg?v=1731310983","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/carrying-water-to-the-field-new-and-selected-poems-9781496216366","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}