Born in 1949, Barton Sutter was raised in tiny towns in Minnesota and Iowa. He earned his B.A. from Southwest Minnesota State University and his M.A. from Syracuse. For ten years, he worked as a typesetter, then taught at various colleges for the next twenty-five, retiring from the University of Wisconsin, Superior, in 2011. He lives in Duluth, on a hillside overlooking Lake Superior, with his wife, Dorothea Diver. The author of seven books, Barton Sutter has earned the Minnesota Book Award for poetry with The Book of Names, for fiction with My Father's War and Other Stories, and for creative non-fiction with Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map. Among other honors, he has won a Jerome Foundation Travel & Study Grant (Sweden), a Loft-McKnight Award in poetry, and the Bassine Citation from the Academy of American Poets. In 2006, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Duluth. Sutter has read his work in a wide variety of venues-from Sandstone's Quarry Days to the City College of New York, from Bayfield's Big Top Chautauqua to Pittsburgh's International Poetry Forum. He has written for Minnesota Public Radio, and he often performs as one half of The Sutter Brothers, a poetry-and-music duo. In recent years, his collaborations with composer Marya Hart--Bushed: A Poetical, Political, Partly Musical Tragicomedy in Two Acts and Pine Creek Parish: A Verse Play with Music-have won standing ovations.
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Table of Contents I Alakazam 2 Nestlings 3 What Does This Mean? 5 The Plaster 8 My Father and the Trondheims 12 The Horse-drawn School Bus 15 The Snowlady 17 The Pit 20 What I Saw in Smitty's Garage 22 The Rubber Breast 23 A Mighty Fortress 24 My Mother at Swan Lake 26 II How to Say North 29 Dead Evergreens 30 Several Dozen Shades of Green 32 Those Finnish Folk 33 A Sad How-do-you-do 35 Mink 36 River Otter Rag 38 A Little Shiver 41 Lessons I Learned from Our Dog 42 An Afterlife After All 44 III Why I Haven't Bought a Cell Phone Yet 48 The Minnesota Department of Transportation Plans to Straighten out Highway 1 50 The Buddhist Monks of Burma 52 Vice 53 "It's Just a Goddamned Piece of Paper!" 56 IV February Thaw 61 Minnesota Clerihews 63 The Pileated Woodpecker 64 The Sleepytalk Man 65 The Thinker 67 O'Gara's Bar & Grill (circa 1978) 68 Nightnoise 70 Jukebox Tunes from the Dirty Shame Saloon 71 How Big Are You? 72 V What My Daughter, Who Is Always Reading, Said 75 A Cautionary Tale for Condition Cranks 76 The Bone Yard 77 Hunger 78 J. F. Powers and the Fiction of Perfection 79 The New Clerk at Barnes & Noble Recites for Me in Russian 84 VI Driving through a Blizzard on New Year's Eve 88 Helpful Developments 89 Skin 90 Poem That Picks up Where Neruda Left Off 92 For My Wife upon the Garage Roof 93 With You in Spain 95 VII The Reindeer Camps 100
Table of Contents I Alakazam 2 Nestlings 3 What Does This Mean? 5 The Plaster 8 My Father and the Trondheims 12 The Horse-drawn School Bus 15 The Snowlady 17 The Pit 20 What I Saw in Smitty's Garage 22 The Rubber Breast 23 A Mighty Fortress 24 My Mother at Swan Lake 26 II How to Say North 29 Dead Evergreens 30 Several Dozen Shades of Green 32 Those Finnish Folk 33 A Sad How-do-you-do 35 Mink 36 River Otter Rag 38 A Little Shiver 41 Lessons I Learned from Our Dog 42 An Afterlife After All 44 III Why I Haven't Bought a Cell Phone Yet 48 The Minnesota Department of Transportation Plans to Straighten out Highway 1 50 The Buddhist Monks of Burma 52 Vice 53 "It's Just a Goddamned Piece of Paper!" 56 IV February Thaw 61 Minnesota Clerihews 63 The Pileated Woodpecker 64 The Sleepytalk Man 65 The Thinker 67 O'Gara's Bar & Grill (circa 1978) 68 Nightnoise 70 Jukebox Tunes from the Dirty Shame Saloon 71 How Big Are You? 72 V What My Daughter, Who Is Always Reading, Said 75 A Cautionary Tale for Condition Cranks 76 The Bone Yard 77 Hunger 78 J. F. Powers and the Fiction of Perfection 79 The New Clerk at Barnes & Noble Recites for Me in Russian 84 VI Driving through a Blizzard on New Year's Eve 88 Helpful Developments 89 Skin 90 Poem That Picks up Where Neruda Left Off 92 For My Wife upon the Garage Roof 93 With You in Spain 95 VII The Reindeer Camps 100
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