Natural Wonders

Poems by Local Author Sarah Sutro

Sarah Sutro’s Natural Wonders spin out along myriad settings, illuminated by rolling waters, daylight, bird song, upheavals and night’s lingering shadows. The poems cast a penetrating eye and voice as they cascade down the page, pointing the reader to nature’s shifts, its beauty, its endurance–what we need to hold us together.

–Deborah Brown, writer and editor

Sarah Sutro’s poems in Natural Wonders comprise a collection of keen, bright observations—what we might expect from an accomplished visual artist—and yet this book is more than a series of beautiful pictures.  Here we have a record of diverse experiences lived deeply, poems that continually surprise us with images and metaphors drawn from the natural world and connected to our hearts and imaginations: “The ribbon of highway/ outside my window/ is a torrent/ of horses.” Sutro’s poems search for and find insight; her vision is, as she says, “an urging towards/ beauty and the deeper/ message.”

–Peter Fortunato, author of Desert Wind: My Life in Qatar