The Book of Names

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.

Barton Sutter is the only author to win the Minnesota Book Award in three different categories: for fiction with My Father's War and Other Stories, for creative non-fiction with Cold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map, and for poetry with The Book of Names: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions). Among other honors, he has won a Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant (Sweden), a Loft-McKnight Award, and the Bassine Citation from The Academy of American Poets. He teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Wisconsin, Superior.