The Refusal of Suitors Author|Bülent Somay but I’ve yet to read

but I’ve yet to read one that is more complete than this one

- The Children’s Book Review

"Barton Sutter is so thoroughly a Minnesota Scandinavian—with the usual streak of curmudgeonly pessimism—that he becomes something larger

Alan Loots was born in Carroll

and about the freedom poetry sometimes claims

The Refusal of Suitors Author|Bülent Somay but I’ve yet to readThe Refusal of Suitors draws on Penelope and her loom to engage the landscapes, wants, forms, and ultimately the repetitions and variations of contemporary urban life. Through varying styles, voices, and layouts, these poems move collectively with a sonic force, the "pure acoustics of declaratives," through "a night that begins with our falling asleep, the wet paragraph that he aspirates," with a visionary amalgam of phenomenon and symbol. From long