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That Other Life

By Joyce Sutphen
Series: Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series
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That Other Life is a collection of poems by Joyce Sutphen that skilfully use the sonnet form to explore the narrator's romantic and domestic experiences. The poems trace the complexities of love and relationships, presenting a narrative about the successes and failures encountered along the way. Sutphen employs precise and evocative language to capture moments of intimacy and change in everyday life.
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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 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.

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Book Details

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ISBN: 9780887486951

Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 October 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Carnegie-Mellon University Press

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 10.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 113g

Pages: 96

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About the Author

Joyce Sutphen is the author of ten previous books of poetry, including Straight Out of View, Naming the Stars, and Carrying Water to the Field: New and Selected Poems. 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.

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