Natural Wonders by Sarah Sutro

$17.99

 

Sarah Sutro’s Natural Wonders spin out along myriad settings, illuminated by rolling waters, daylight, bird song, upheavals and night’s lingering shadows. The poems cast a penetrating eye and voice as they cascade down the page, pointing the reader to nature’s shifts, its beauty, its endurance–what we need to hold us together.

–Deborah Brown, writer and editor

 

Sarah Sutro’s poems in Natural Wonders comprise a collection of keen, bright observations—what we might expect from an accomplished visual artist—and yet this book is more than a series of beautiful pictures.  Here we have a record of diverse experiences lived deeply, poems that continually surprise us with images and metaphors drawn from the natural world and connected to our hearts and imaginations: “The ribbon of highway/ outside my window/ is a torrent/ of horses.” Sutro’s poems search for and find insight; her vision is, as she says, “an urging towards/ beauty and the deeper/ message.”

–Peter Fortunato, author of Desert Wind: My Life in Qatar

 

 

 

 

Category:

Description

Natural Wonders

by Sarah Sutro

Paper

List: $17.99

979-8-88838-663-7

2024

These poems are guides to seeing up close, they move throughout a year, tempered by the fundamentals of sun, rain, snow, darkness as the basis of human survival, and the re-creation of beauty thanks to a poet’s eye. Balancing inner feeling with outer circumstance, the poet brings awareness to natural processes, that define her engagement with the world. The poems point out split second changes, interactions within the environment, and capture the upfront miniscule moment and the constancy of rhythms, arcs and gifts from nature. A kind of rallying to care for earth’s house and our ultimate survival, they stress the necessity to repeat these daily excursions and the urgency to keep on cultivating, walking, praising, looking ahead – ultimately conversing with the earth every day to protect and appreciate her.

Sarah Sutro is an American writer and artist who has had poetry published in the US, Europe and Asia. Her chapbook Études was published by Finishing Line Press in 2016, and her book of essays COLORS: Passages through Art, Asia and Nature by Blue Asia Press in 2011. Her work has been included in journals, newspapers and anthologies, and she has been a writer and reviewer for American Arts Quarterly and Berkshire Fine Arts. For many years she taught college courses in art and interdisciplinary studies in the Boston area. She was a finalist for the Robert Frost poetry award in 2005. Her paintings can be seen at www.sarahsutro.com.

 

Reviews

There are no reviews yet.

Be the first to review “Natural Wonders by Sarah Sutro”

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Related products