According to Albert Goldbarth, Author, To Be Read in 500 Years and
many more poetry collections; two-time winner, National Book
Critics Circle award, "The 'slim striped dirt-colored frog / in the
first flush of deadnetle, milweed / and bindweed unmaking the
hollyhock bed" might be Annie Dillard by way of Gerard Manley
Hopins . . . but in fact it's Suzanne Kay Miller, whose
poem-document on life lived both in and away from a Mennonite
community proves to us over and over how 'You might imagine
eternity / in local terms, ' the mandate of so much moving poetry,
and the lovely presiding spirit of her own." Darcy A. Zabel,
Professor of English, Friends University, says that "Pop
psychologists call it baggage-the memories, the feelings, both
happy and sad, that stick with us, and haunt us, but author Suzanne
Miller rightly observes that really, it's storage issues-how much
room do you have in a life for happiness, for joy, for love and for
the pain that sometimes comes with great love and loss?" Raylene
Hinz-Penner, Author, Searching for Sacred Ground: The Journey of
Chief Lawrence Hart, Mennonite, observes, "'To live as an island in
a sea of wickeness, even with God, leaves one dry.' Empathizing
here with the thirst of Noah, Miller explores that 'dryness' that
is the human plight, especially the generations of woman-pain:
mothering, a husband's betrayals, brokenness, like that of the
trees. The poet's voice reminds me, when it breaks into praise, of
Hopkins in its formality-and sometimes, in its disappointment with
the world, as anguished as a Sexton or a Plath."
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