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Of a Transient Nature,
by Virginia Chase Sutton
Virginia Chase Sutton's book Of a Transient Nature was a finalist for the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize and features original artwork by painter Philip Neil Mandel. Sutton's poetry has appeared in Paris Review, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, and Quarterly West, among many others; and her book What Brings You to Del Amo won the Morse Poetry Prize from the University Press of New England. About Of a Transient Nature, National Book Award winner Mark Doty writes: "Virginia Chase Sutton’s brave new book is concerned with pleasure, though not in any usual sense of the word . . . The woman we meet here tattoos on her back the Japanese characters for suffering, ecstasy and death; she is not afraid to put her hands into the fire where she first learned love, where harm and desire dwell intertwined, and not afraid to hope, or to take us with her into the depths of the days she’s known."
Author Bio
Virginia Chase Sutton's poetry book What Brings You to Del Amo won the Morse Poetry Prize, and was published by the University Press of New England. Her first book Embellishments was published by Chatoyant. Her poems have appeared in Paris Review, Ploughshares, Antioch Review, and Quarterly West, among many other magazines, journals, and anthologies. Her poems have won the Louis Untermeyer Scholarship in Poetry at Bread Loaf and the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award. She lives in Tempe, Arizona. This collection Of a Transient Nature, containing original artwork in collaboration with painter Philip Neil Mandel, was a finalist for the 2015 Knut House Poetry Prize and published in February 2016.
