{"product_id":"chester-creek-ravine","title":"Chester Creek Ravine","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe early Japanese haiku masters were indefatigable walkers. Basho traveled 1 500 miles to produce a single slim volume \u003cem\u003eThe Narrow Road to the Deep North.\u003c\/em\u003e In a rootless 21st century society obsessed with mobility and speed Bart Sutter decided to combine Basho's practice with Thoreau's sage advice to \"stay home.\" In writing \u003cem\u003eChester Creek Ravine \u003c\/em\u003e he says \"I walked at least a thousand miles but I did it by covering the same 2.5 mile loop through Chester Creek Ravine repeatedly catching it right down the block.\" Occasionally during those neighborhood walks Sutter had fleeting moments when the inner and the outer worlds came together in a flash of intimate imagery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe 150 haiku contained in this book-tiny poems with large implications-conjure those revelatory moments alongside Chester Creek a stream that drops dramatically through the city of Duluth on its final run to Lake Superior. Sutter honors the haiku tradition by sticking close to the classical form alluding to the seasons and choosing subjects from the natural world but his haiku are fully contemporary and include surprises too-a pregnant girl with her black lab beer cans bagpipes plastic sacks-while his subtle use of rhyme helps rivet these impressions in the reader's mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBart Sutter\u003c\/strong\u003e received the Minnesota Book Award for poetry with \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Names: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e for fiction with\u003cem\u003e My Father's War and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e and for creative non-fiction with \u003cem\u003eCold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong other honors he has won a Jerome Foundation Travel \u0026amp;amp Study Grant (Sweden) a Loft-McKnight Award and the Bassine Citation from the Academy of American Poets. In 2006 he was named the first Poet Laureate of Duluth. He has written for public radio he has had four verse plays produced and he often performs as one half of The Sutter Brothers a poetry-and-music duo. Bart Sutter lives on a hillside overlooking Lake Superior with his wife Dorothea Diver.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526310449427,"sku":"9781935666752","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/img_proxy_8974f599-31fe-47df-a4f4-4f588d93d0d9.jpg?v=1785850468","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/chester-creek-ravine","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}