They’re Gone by Teresa Sutton

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All the more poignant for being understated, Teresa Sutton‘s They’re Gone illuminates the connection between disastrous political and environmental decisions and their devastating effect on a particular family. Both ironic and compassionate, these carefully crafted poems pay tribute to the very human ways in which we struggle to cope with tragedy.

–Kathleen Aguero, Author of Daughter of, The Real Weather, and many other titles.

 

Illness and death raise fundamental existential questions, moral questions about how we should live life, that we should be asking when not in the shadow of death. Teresa Sutton provides us with the opportunity to make those reflections. Her poems shape a memento mori for our thoughts. The poems in the voices of family members years after the loss are especially provocative for our meditations.

–Dr. John Briggs, Author of Fire in the Crucible, Fractals: The Patterns of Chaos, and many other titles.

 

Teresa Sutton‘s poems are haunted; lost brothers, months apart, lost mother, soon after. Like Emerson with his wife in her closing poem, Sutton’s poems, with their straight-to-the-point music of plain speech, visits them daily, digs them up, perhaps to see if they are really dead, perhaps to touch them again, perhaps to test the relationship of the soul to the world. We close this book, carry our dead with hers.

–Cornelius Eady, Author of Hardheaded Weather, Brutal Imagination, and many other titles.

 

 

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They’re Gone

by Teresa Sutton

$14,paper

For anyone who has ever experienced a deep loss, “They’re Gone” plumbs the depths of the inevitable human quest for understanding and acceptance.

Teresa Sutton is a poet and a teacher. “They’re Gone,” her first poetry chapbook, is about the loss of both of her brothers in 1980 from cardiomyopathy. Many of the poems in the book are written as persona poems or dramatic monologues creating a chorus of voices lamenting the loss.

Her second chapbook, “Ossory Wolves,” published Sept. 2016, is available at Dancing Girl Press: https://dulcetshop.myshopify.com/products/ossory-wolves-teresa-sutton. It was a finalist in the 2014 Bright Hill Press’ Poetry Chapbook Competition.

Her third chapbook, “Breaking Newton’s Laws,” won first place in the 2017 Encircle Publications Chapbook Competition, and one of the poems, “Dementia,” was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. “Breaking Newton’s Laws” was also a top-12 finalist in the 2015 Indian Paintbrush Chapbook Competition, a finalist in the 2016 Minerva Rising Chapbook Competition, and earned an honorable mention in the 2015 Concrete Wolf Poetry Chapbook Competition.

The Poet’s Billow recognized her work as a finalist in the 2015 Pangaea Prize and a semi-finalist in the 2014 Atlantis Award. The Cultural Center of Cape Cod recognized her work as a finalist in their 2014 National Poetry Competition. Two of her poems won honorable mention in other poetry competitions: Whispering Prairie Press and California State Poetry Society.

Ms. Sutton has two children and lives in Poughkeepsie, NY. She has three master’s degrees: MFA in poetry from Solstice Pine Manor College, MA in literature from Western Connecticut State University, and MS in education from SUNY New Paltz. She earned her BA in English with a minor in art from SUNY Albany.

In addition to her books, Ms. Sutton’s poems have been published in literary journals including: Stone Canoe (Syracuse U), Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, California Quarterly, The Healing Muse (SUNY Upstate Medical U − Center for Bioethics and Humanities), Meridian Anthology, RiverSedge (U of Texas − Pan American), Studio One (College of St. Benedict and St. John’s University), The Cape Rock (Southeast Missouri State University), Fourteen Hills, Edison Literary Review, Westview (Southwestern Oklahoma State U), A Time of Singing, Memoir (and), Euphony (U of Chicago), Peregrine (Amherst Writers).

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