That Other Life

by Joyce Sutphen

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887486959
• ISBN13: 9780887486951
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.3"