A collection of six stories includes "You Ain't Dead Yet," about a young man who spends one summer working as a grave digger, and the title story about two brothers, protestors against the Vietnam War, who come to an understanding of the impact of World War II on their father's life

My Father's War and Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Sutter, Barton

United States

Viking Adult

1998 University of Minnesota Press hardcover, Barton Sutter (My Father's War: Stories of Midwestern Men). Temperatures that dive to forty degrees below zero are only part of life in northern Minnesota, according to award-winning writer Barton Sutter. Cold Comfort is his temperamental tribute to the city of Duluth, Minnesota, where bears wander the streets and canoe racks are standard equipment.

Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map

History

Americas

Univ of Minnesota Pr

Temperatures that dive to forty degrees below zero are only part of life in northern Minnesota, according to award-winning writer Barton Sutter. Cold Comfort is his temperamental tribute to the city of Duluth, Minnesota, where bears wander the streets and canoe racks are standard equipment.

Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map (Minnesota)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Univ. of Minnesota Press

In this collection of stories, Barton Sutter shows us all the ways in which we are shaped by our surroundings. With an unswerving gaze, he portrays the rituals of growing up that we all experience, no matter how old we think we are.

My Father's War: Stories of Midwestern Men

Cedarhome

Poetry

Writers Books

Book Of Names: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum Series)

BOA Editions, Ltd.

Winner of the 1994 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry. Barton Sutter's poetry is earthy and muscular, chiseled from his native Midwestern landscape. Drawing from the narrative, formal tradition of Robert Frost and E. A. Robinson, Sutter's poems are full of the grist of rural life--old farms, old shops, wild mushrooms, beaver dams, roadside bars and eccentric, vital people.

The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems (American Poets Continuum)

In Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey, Barton Sutter explores the wilderness along the Canadian border, sings about love in midlife, meditates on the roots of war, attacks political leaders, recounts peculiar heroics of an epileptic Vietnam vet, writes a “personal” ad in the voice of a chickadee and talks to a dead jackpine. A deft practitioner of meter and rhyme, Sutter is a fireside storyteller who makes the language thump and sing.Barton Sutter is the only author to win the Minnesota Book Award in three different categories, including poetry, for The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems (BOA). He teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, Superior. He lives in Duluth, MN.

Farewell to the Starlight in Whiskey (American Poets Continuum)

A winner of the Minnesota Book Award in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction, Barton Sutter's latest collection details life on the Canadian border, presents portraits of northern plants and animals, rejoices in marriage, and traces the ancient ways of Siberian reindeer herders. The late Bill Holm called it "unlike anything Sutter (or anyone else) has done before." Sutter's poetry reminds us that other cultures have survived for millennia by living closer to the ground.Born in 1949, Barton Sutter was raised in Minnesota and Iowa. He retired from the University of Wisconsin–Superior in 2011 and now lives in Duluth, Minnesota.

The Reindeer Camps (American Poets Continuum)

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