{"title":"Joyce Sutphen","description":"\u003cp\u003eJoyce Sutphen’s work offers a profound exploration of personal reflection and the passage of time, inviting readers into quiet moments of introspection. Through her evocative use of language, her poetry often delves into themes of memory, nature, and the complexities of human experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOften found within the \u003cem\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/em\u003e category, Sutphen’s collections, including \u003cstrong\u003eThat Other Life\u003c\/strong\u003e and \u003cstrong\u003eThis Long Winter\u003c\/strong\u003e, blend lyrical beauty with thoughtful meditation, appealing to those who appreciate contemplative and resonant verse.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"this-long-winter-by-joyce-sutphen-9780887486784","title":"This Long Winter","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA luminous collection of modern metaphysical poems.\u003c\/b\u003e  \n\n\u003cem\u003eThis Long Winter\u003c\/em\u003e contains poems that are meditations on life in the rural world: reflections on hard work, ageing, and the ravages of time—erasures that Sutphen attempts to ameliorate with her careful attention to language.\n\nThese poems move us from delight in precise description to wisdom and solace in the things of this world. Noticing its details, the snowflakes, clementines, the lilies, the cardinal’s call, is the key for this momentary stay against time that comes at us in a rush.\n\nThe many mirror images in these poems point to the complexity and hard, loving work of really living in the world. And now, in the deep mid-winter, deep in the enforced slowdown of this pandemic, we need these poems to help us know what to do with the past and how to live and how to love.\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487711215852,"sku":"9780887486784","price":18.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/44ff5a4dfe7a5f5e6f469d70ac2512a0.jpg?v=1775770208"},{"product_id":"that-other-life-by-joyce-sutphen-9780887486951","title":"That Other Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoems that deftly draw on the sonnet form to follow the speaker’s romantic life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThat Other Life\u003c\/em\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47603190890732,"sku":"9780887486951","price":37.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780887486951-that-other-life.jpg?v=1778057156"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/joyce-sutphen.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}