{"product_id":"that-other-life-9780887486951","title":"That Other Life","description":"\u003cb\u003ePoems that deftly draw on the sonnet form to follow the speaker's romantic life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eThat Other Life\u003c\/i\u003e 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 are sonnets, and each sonnet provides a glimpse of a swiftly moving life. In the same carefully crafted language as she uses to describe an oat binder, Sutphen surveys marriage and love.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJoyce Sutphen\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of ten previous books of poetry, including\u003ci\u003e Straight Out of View, Naming the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCarrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e. She is professor emerita at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, where she taught literature and creative writing. She served as Poet Laureate of Minnesota from 2011-2021.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Carnegie-Mellon University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50562988900626,"sku":"9780887486951","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_b8fd4413-d6c4-4263-8761-89a3f51ae263.jpg?v=1731865382","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/that-other-life-9780887486951","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}